SEOUL March 10 Kyodo A former coa...

SEOUL March 10 Kyodo

A former coach of North Korea's national soccer team has destitutioned to South Korea with his family, Yonhap freshs Agency reported Wednesday, quoting southerly Korea's National Intelligence Service.

Mun Ki Nam, 56 who coached the North's soccer team from 1999 to 2000 is beneath the protective custody of toward the south Korean intelligence after arriving in Seoul upon Jan. 30, according to the report.

Mun escaped the North in August last year, along with his wife and four children, and took covert at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing in mid-January, the report quot a control intelligence official as saying upon condition of anonymity.

In 1991 Mun was the North Korean-side coach of a unified inter-Korean soccer team which compet in the year's world youth soccer championship in Portugal.

Mun is the next to the first coach of the North's soccer team to foible to the South, following Yun Myong Chan in 1999

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