London 2012 Olympics Start With British Political Propaganda Phuckup

London 2012: North Korea's game delayed amid row over South's flag

• Hampden Park screen displays wrong country's emblem
• Olympic organisers apologise and Colombia game is late!


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North Korea

• Ewan Murray at Hampden Park
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 July 2012 21.06 BST

North Korea's footballers initially refused to play after a big screen showed the South Korea's flag beside their picture. Photograph: James Crossan/AP

London 2012 organisers suffered major embarrassment on the opening day of sporting action after North Korea initially refused to play their women's football match against Colombia. The North Koreans left the pitch in protest shortly before the end of their scheduled warmup in Glasgow last night amid scenes of high farce as the South Korean flag was shown on the Hampden Park big screens alongside the North Korean team lineup.

Kick-off was due at 7.45pm but the aggrieved players did not restart their warmup until just before 8.30pm, after the flag was replaced with the correct one on the scoreboards following extensive negotiations behind the scenes. The match eventually kicked off at 8.50pm.

The incident will cause huge discomfort to Games organisers. Hundreds of thousands of tickets for the men's and women's football tournaments were unsold, with a particular lack of interest in matches in Glasgow. An attendance of 15,000 was given for USA's win over France yesterday at Hampden Park – more than double that number of free tickets had been distributed.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games issued an immediate apology to the North Korea team: "Today ahead of the women's football match at Hampden the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen instead of the flag of North Korea," a Locog statement read. "Clearly that is a mistake. We will apologise to the team and the national Olympic committee and steps will be taken to ensure no repeat" a Locog statement said.

North Korea's coach, Ui Gun-sin, said that winning their match 2-0 against Colombia did not compensate for the mix-up. Ui said: "The national flag difference is a big problem. Our team was not going to participate unless the problem was solved properly. Unfortunately it took some time later for the broadcast [on the big screen] to be done again properly and we made the decision to go on with the match."

Ui added: "We were angry because our players were shown as if they were from South Korea which affects us very greatly. Our players cannot be shown especially with other flags, especially the South Korean one. If this matter had not been solved, continuing would have been a nonsense."

South Korea and North Korea, established as separate entities in 1948, have a tense relationship. Only two years ago, North Korean artillery killed four people, two from the military and two civilians, on Yeonpyeong Island in South Korea.

North Korea have a successful history of playing football on these shores. During the 1966 World Cup they achieved a famous upset, defeating Italy 1-0 at Middlesbrough's Ayresome Park, before eventually losing 5-3 to Portugal in the quarter-finals. However, North Korea is familiar with Olympic controversies. The country boycotted the 1988 Games after being snubbed as co-hosts with Seoul, the capital city of their neighbours with whom they have a tense relationship.

The Colombia coach, Ricardo Rozo, felt the incident had affected his players. "It affected us," he said, "because you have to stop and we didn't know what was happening for a while but it was just something strange, something particular to this situation with North Korea involved and it hasn't damaged our feeling of the competition or the hosts."

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However the Tories want war again in Ireland, to further develop their industrial war complex. Currently in London 2012, animals have far more rights than humans and its not just the Irish. Britain blasted the Beijing Olympic's for their human rights record. The fact is, Britain's human rights record is far, far worse. They engineered a holocaust, that ethnically cleansed Ireland of 6 million of its people. Ireland was their first colony as they invaded most of the world like pirates with barbarity and savagery, on a scale China is not remotely guilty of. Britain's endless blood thirsty wars, have been on a scale that animals are far too evolved to contemplate.

Strange then as the Olympics of London 2012 descend upon us, that England has dumped their centuries old Magna Carta, with their spooky rulers now having the power, to shred without investigation their majesty's royal  prerogatives and overrule her judiciary with scorn, while ignoring the former human rights protections of habeas corpus writs. Strange that such a civilized people also ignore international human rights. Marian Price being but one of hundreds, kidnapped, tortured and interned without trial, often in solitary confinement for years on end in British Occupied Ireland.

Britain has already been found guilty of torture with internment in British Occupied Ireland and promised to cease their brutality but they are at it again, giving the finger to a peace process, hellbent with daily human rights abuses, designed to provoke the Irish and others into retaliation. It's big business all round, with swollen bureaucratic budgets and an arms industry needing to showcase and test their big toys for the small boys of their commonwealth natives. Ask immigrants, ask Julian Assange, currently hiding from the British injustice system, holed up in the Ecuador Embassy, with Britain refusing to grant him the same human rights afforded to the Chinese dissident recently, in the American embassy.

Meanwhile you are asked by people who love peace with justice in British Occupied Ireland, to Boycott Olympic London 2012