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N.Korean Cheerleaders Banished to Camps
Women who caught South Korea's attention with their charm and cheerleading antics when they accompanied the North Korean athletes to the Busan Asian Games have ended up in North Korean detention camps.
Lee Myeong-ho, a former inmate of the Daeheung concentration camp in South Hamgyeong Province who recently escaped to China, said “21 beautiful women” were detained at the camp since the end of last year. “Later I found out that they were the cheerleading team that had gone to South Korea,” he said.
Lee said since inmates are forbidden to talk to one another, he could not find out for sure what mistake they had made, but the rumor was that they had broken their promise to North Korean security services not to disclose what they had seen in South Korea.
Another defector explained the cheerleaders are picked among university students, propaganda squad members and music school students from good families. Before they were sent to South Korea, they had to sign a pledge bearing their 10 fingerprints that says if they are going to an enemy country -- Pyongyang’s epithet for the South -- they must fight as soldiers of leader Kim Jong-il and never talk about what they have seen or heard in South Korea once they return. They agree to accept punishment if they break the promise.
The defector said the Daeheung camp usually houses those convicted of economic crimes with a political dimension but has recently also become a camp for political dissidents. The camp, known as one of the worst in North Korea, is located in a mining area high in ragged mountains where there is hardly any vegetation.
North Korea first sent 270 cheerleaders to the Busan Asian Games in September 2002. For the 2003 Summer Universiad in Daegu it was 306, and at the 2005 Asian Athletics Championship in Incheon there were 124.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/new...0602160019.html
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pics of the cheerleaders
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most likely won't be seeing them again
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This somehow reminds me of the Falun Gong case in China, but clearly these women that are detained have done no physical harm to themselves in contrast to the reports of FG practitioners. The only harm that was committed is that their minds were allowed to have outter influence, and it was considered a 'national' threat against N.Korea's safety and protection if they were to leak 'classified' information to the N.Korean public. Tomago86 is right about one thing, we won't be seeing them again. This is just an assumption, but I bet the most beautiful women are probably now Kim Jong Il's sex slaves or something. I remember reading several articles about the fool saying he's one sick, perverted man.
Sad that these women are forced to live in such a cruel N.Korean world.
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They were pretty hot too. =[
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sucks for them, on related news south korea supports the north yey! KJI can stuff his fat ass mouth with all the food he buys with the 'aid' the south gives NK! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) NK says SK is evil, SK sends over some aid. Makes sense doesn't it?
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So they get punished for being sent by thier country to support the team. How gracious of North Korea.
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So they get punished for being sent by thier country to support the team. How gracious of North Korea.
they just weren't peppy enough
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That's messed up.
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oh man, i hope they're okay.... that's pretty cruel.
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Yay another reason to dislike KJI
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Harsh. Not fair.
They're pretty.
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ehh there average looking but like doode no offense they were told not to say anything and they did its a bad thing to break a promise but to punish them by putting them into camps thats mean
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i think they must have known about the consequences if they did that, but i don't think they knew they would be sent to camps..
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most likely won't be seeing them again
yup.
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oh no, i feel so sorry for them. even living in north korea is like hell for a majority of the people, but it's worse to be living in one of the worst places in north korea.
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Poor cheerleaders.
Kim Jong-Il was just mad because they were cuter than him.
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they just weren't peppy enough
Apparently not. Maybe pom-pons would have helped in not being incarcerated.
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ehh there average looking but like doode no offense they were told not to say anything and they did its a bad thing to break a promise but to punish them by putting them into camps thats mean
^ They may seem average looking. But they're probably more natural than their S. Korean counter-parts.
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When will the world realize how mentally insane Kim-Jung Il is??
