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SOUTH Korea is unlikely to offer North Korea a free TV feed of the World Cup, which features a rare appearance by a team from the North, given tension over the sinking of a warship, officials said on Tuesday.
The impoverished North enjoyed free broadcasts of the 2006 tournament with support from the then-liberal government in the South.
But SBS, the South Korean broadcaster with rights to the event, said talks on a possible free feed this year had stopped in the wake of the unexplained sinking in March of a South Korean naval ship near the countries' sea border. This year's tournament, which starts next month, will be closely followed in the North since it is the first time since 1966 that the impoverished communist state has qualified.
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