During my conversation with Nick Bonner about North Korea one topic came up again and again. It wasn't nuclear missiles, the leadership of Kim Jong-Il or the country's Juche ideology. It was something much more prosaic, and it typifies his enthusiasm for the secretive state. It was football.
Bonner mentioned a North Korean football youth team that was currently in Beijing a visit he had helped organise. Then he moved onto the North Korean women's team one of the best in the world. And then there is his first documentary a story about North Korea's success in the 1966...
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