SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will call on three of their English Premier League players to join the national team for next week's 2010 football World Cup qualifier against rival North Korea, its football association said on Monday.

The Korean Football Association has requested Park Ji-sung of Manchester United, Seol Ki-hyeon of Fulham and Lee Young-pyo of Tottenham Hotspur to play in the March 26 match.

Park and Seol were instrumental in South Korea's first qualifying match on February 6 when they contributed to all the goals in a 4-0 thrashing of Turkmenistan.

The match with the prickly neighbour to the North was moved to Shanghai by football's governing body FIFA after North Korea refused to allow the South Korean national anthem to be played or its flag displayed at a stadium in Pyongyang.

The two Koreas, which have yet to sign a peace treaty to officially end their 1950-53 war, state in their respective constitutions that the government on their side of the heavily armed border is the rightful one for the entire peninsula.

(Reporting by Lee Jiyeon, writing by Jon Herskovitz, editing by N.Ananthanarayanan)