JIA Xinyao, a Chinese U-15 national soccer team player in the 2009 Youth Asian Games in Singapore, could not understand the attitude of the North Korean players. They were both communist delegations, but even the Chinese found their Korean “comrades” to be rather unwelcoming. “We bumped into one another occasionally back in the hotel, but they never uttered a single word,” said Jia. The North Korean squad locked themselves in the