Asian Games athletes face ideology drills before Japan trip

Asian Games athletes face ideology drills before Japan trip

North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea has ordered intensive ideological education for the elite athletes it plans to send to the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. The directive is meant to guard against ideological “deviation” during an extended stay in neighboring Japan, according to a source with knowledge of the situation inside the country. Pyongyang has confirmed it will dispatch a delegation to the games, which open in the Japanese cit…