N. Korean soccer teams arrive in Japan on specially issued visas

North Korea's men's and women's national soccer teams arrived Tuesday at Tokyo's Haneda airport from Beijing, gaining entry with visas issued despite Japan's ongoing ban on citizens from the country.The players are scheduled to take part in the East Asian Football Federation's upcoming E-1 Football Championship, in which Japan, China, South Korea and North Korea will compete.Tokyo has banned North Korean nationals from entering the country as part of unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang over its continued development and tests of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, but the Japanese Em…READ FULL ARTICLE