[3][4] North Korea is one of the Asian Football Confederation women's powerhouses alongside Japan, China and Australia.

Later in the same tournament, the national team played two more matches, losing 1–3 to Chinese Taipei and winning 4–0 against Thailand, thus finishing third in their group.

The regular and extra time of the match ended in a goalless draw, and the winner was determined in a penalty shootout, in which the North Korean national team lost 4–5,[8] finishing fourth in the tournament and narrowly missing qualification for the World Cup.

In their first World Cup, the North Korean team was placed in a group with Nigeria, Denmark, and the tournament hosts, the United States.

A 0–3 loss to the United States in the final group-stage match left the North Korean team in third place in the group, preventing them from reaching the tournament's knockout stage.

[13] North Korea reasoned the positive doping results in from deer musk-derived Chinese traditional medicine used to treat players hit by lightning.

[14] On 25 August 2011, the North Korean team was fined US$ 400,000 which is equal to the prize it received by finishing 13th in the 2011 tournament, and was excluded from participation at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, including its qualification round.