Football fans and media outlets could not watch the historic inter-Korean World Cup qualifier in Pyeongyang last night... which resulted in a goalless draw in an almost-empty stadium.<br />While the North promised to give a DVD of the footage to the South Korean side after the game,... the Swedish Ambassador to North Korea has released a glimpse of the historic match on Twitter.<br />Kan Hyeong-woo reports.<br />Nobody in South Korea has seen the full match footage of the inter-Korean World Cup qualifier in Pyeongyang.... but the Swedish Ambassador to North Korea has tweeted some short clips of the players lining up for each other's national anthem.<br />Posting the video footage after the match,... Ambassador Joachim Bergstrom said it was a "hopeful and historic moment" when the South Korean anthem was played at the Kim Il-sung Stadium in Pyeongyang.<br />Another video released by the Swedish Ambassador showed some of the South and North Korean players getting into what appears to be a scuffle.<br />South Korea's captain and Tottenham Hotspur's star forward Son Heung-min was seen trying to calm down the North Korean players.<br />Regarding this video footage,... Ambassador Bergstrom said emotions run high at times as the two Koreas meet in a FIFA qualification match, but the audience is "sparse".<br />Pyeongyang kept the stands empty with no crowd at the match venue... which had been expected to be full of tens of thousands of North Korean fans.<br />The regime also denied access to any fans or reporters from the South and did not even allow foreign media or tourists to watch the match.<br />One of the few officials who attended the match, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, later expressed disappointment.<br />He said he was let down to see no fans in the stadium,… and was surprised by issues regarding the live broadcast and problems with access for foreign journalists.<br />The reasons for keeping the Kim Il-sung Stadium empty are still unknown.<br />After leaving Pyeongyang on Wednesday to catch a connecting flight from Beijing, the South Korean men's national football team will go their separate ways with some members arriving back at Incheon International Airport early Thursday.<br />Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News.<br />
