Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK girls football team, winner of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup New Zealand 2008, returned home on Friday.

It was greeted at the airport by Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, and others.

Sportspersons and working people presented the players with garlands and bouquets and congratulated them who encouraged the servicepersons and people in the DPRK waging an all-out charge for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation after glorifying the 60th anniversary of the DPRK as a grand festival of victors.