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Manchester United is perhaps one of the most followed football clubs in the world, however, the fact that for someone as controversial and hated like North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to come out as a Manchester United supporter is somewhat shocking.
The 31-year-old may not have said it himself, but why would anyone hand-pick a particular club’s matches for broadcast so that the rest of the country can watch it too.
According to a report in Mirror, Kim Jong-Un has ordered state TV to broadcast the matches through illegal streams. Matches of United are not only the only programmes that will be broadcasted, with the likes of matches from Bundesliga, lessons on how to ride a horse or how to play golf.
For a country like North Korea, where people are struggling hard every day for food shortage, the rights to broadcast Premier League football which costs TV firms more than £1billion a year, sounds outlandish.
However, broadcasting these matches without rights could result in property infringement, and is held as an illegal activity.
A Premier League spokesman told the Daily Star, "Nobody has the rights to broadcast Premier League football in North Korea so if this is happening then it is copyright theft, plain and simple."
