"It (hosting the World Cup) will contribute greatly to not only the football game itself but to the international situation in and around the Korean peninsula," Han told Reuters by telephone.
"We have plans to arrange a couple of games, maybe two or three games to be played in the northern part of Korea." Tensions between the two foes rose again last week after a South Korean navy ship sank in the disputed Yellow Sea border off the west coast on Friday, with reports the North may have been involved although that was later ruled out.
Han is promoting the message that sport, and in particular football, can help the two countries become closer.
"We don't know exactly what the situation will be by the year 2022, we might be a unified country or we might still be a divided country, either way it will be a good opportunity to bring North Korea into the mainstream of the world and it will contribute good relations between north and south." North Korea play in their first World Cup finals for 44 years in the tournament in South Africa starting in June.
