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From Our Own Correspondent: Egypt and North Korea

13/05/2013

Egypt and North Korea

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Egypt and North Korea

Egypt's ambivalent attitudes to the military and a football match Pyongyang-style

Egypt's ambivalent attitudes to the military and a football match Pyongyang-style.

Shaimaa Khalil explores the ambivalent attitudes which Egyptians have to their country's armed forces. Once they were viewed with respect and fear - even nicknamed "Allah's soldiers on earth". Then they were briefly celebrated as heroes of the 2011 revolution; yet the pendulum has swung again, to a view that they have gone from being saviours to oppressors. So what is their role to be? 

Tim Hartley savours a different sort of esprit de corps on the pitch of Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, attending perhaps the most orderly football match he's ever seen. Controlled play was never like this.

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