North Korea’s national football team won the Asian Football Confederation's(AFC) U-20 Women’s Asian Cup after beating Japan.

The North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said on Sunday that the country’s women’s football team defeated Japan 2-1 in the final match of the Asian Cup on Saturday in Uzbekistan.

The KCNA said that the football team lost a goal in the 20th minute but scored two goals in the 44th and 86th minutes to win the match.

Last Wednesday, North Korea advanced to the final after beating South Korea 3 to zero.

Reporting on the semifinal, the KCNA said that North Korean players defeated the “puppet state” South Korean players by a score of 3 to zero and advanced to the final stage.

North Korea captured the Asian Cup title for the first time since 2007.