Watch a major league game and play a friendly match with a local youth team.
Challengers, Korea’s first youth baseball team made up of North Korean defectors
A baseball team comprised of youths who escaped from North Korea is visiting the United States, the birthplace of baseball.
The Challengers, the first youth baseball team comprised of North Korean defectors, founded in 2018, will visit the United States starting on the 18th (local time), said Kang Go-eun, the American director of the New Korean Peninsula Baseball Association, at a press conference held in Annandale, Virginia on the 16th.
The delegation, consisting of 12 people including 7 high school players, college students who have finished their baseball team activities, and working adults, will visit the UN headquarters in New York and Washington D.C. until the 27th, and will meet with Korean-American members of the House of Representatives, Julie Turner, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, and meet with North Korean human rights organizations.
They will also watch the New York Yankees play, receive coaching from Chad Cordero, a former pitcher for the Washington, D.C. Nationals, and play a friendly match against a Korean-American youth baseball team.
In particular, the baseball team will watch the Nationals play a game themed ‘Korean Heritage Day’ on the 24th, in which Ha-seong Kim, who plays for the San Diego Padres, will also play. 파워볼사이트