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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/n-koreans-given-football-film-treat.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="North Koreans got a rare treat this week: a state TV broadcast of the film Bend It Like Beckham, starring Keira Knightley" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-n-koreans-given-football-film-treat.jpg" alt="North Koreans got a rare treat this week: a state TV broadcast of the film Bend It Like Beckham, starring Keira Knightley"/></a></p>
<p>North Koreans got a rare treat this week: a state TV broadcast of the football film Bend It Like Beckham.</p>
<p>The 2002 film starring Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Myers was a break from the regular programming of news, documentaries and soap operas. Western films are largely off limits in the isolated country.</p>
<p>The broadcast, monitored in Seoul on December 26, appeared to be edited as it was only an hour long.</p>
<p>In a tweet, the British Ambassador to South Korea, Martin Uden, called the broadcast the &#8220;1st ever western-made film to air on TV&#8221; in North Korea. The British Embassy arranged it.</p>
<p>Bend It Like Beckham features a sport beloved among North Koreans, but it also has taboo topics, like inter-racial relationships, homosexuality and religion.</p>
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