Sorry everyone.
This video, posted two days ago, appears to be a North Korean news report claiming the country has made the World Cup final.
A whole load of news sites have reported that the video is an official North Korean state broadcast.
They include the Mirror, Metro, CBC and Toronto Sun, although some have updated their posts.
However...
For a start, as this report shows, North Koreans are not only aware that their team didn't make the World Cup; they can even watch it on TV. In 2010 a deal was announced by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union which allowed the country to broadcast World Cup matches.
The television channel earlier covered the opening ceremony of the Brazil World Cup, also about a day later, before broadcasting the opening match between Brazil and Croatia as well as games between Chile and Australia, Mexico and Cameroon as well as between Spain and the Netherlands.
The North Korean TV footage showed that Pyongyang produced the films by taping what a South Korean broadcaster had aired, with the name of the South Korean company blurred on the screen.
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