A good 10 minute video. Man it was crazy in Korea in 2002!

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I've been looking for a video online of the North Korean cheerleaders who have come to participate in some events in South Korea.

If anybody finds a clip, please let me know by posting it here.

Did you hear that many of those NK cheerleaders were sent to prison camps for "talking too much" about their experiences in South Korea?

Link: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/ht...602160019.html

I seem to remember that.

Korea has a history of such things. The Japanese-Koreans who came over in the 1960s were eventually put in concentration camps. Some who have been given the chance to study overseas have been locked up when the government started to get more paranoid -- regardless of whether you gave them reason to doubt you or not ---- they locked them up "just in case".

Even if you are a member of the elite, you have no security in Korea. It is a regime totally built on fear.

And built on control.

The people in control likely got paranoid of overseas education, because that would put someone else's children "ahead" of of theirs.

This society is very controlling.

I was thinking back to the round ups that came in the late 1980s and early 1990s as Communism fell in the Eastern Bloc nations....Students were moved around as Pyongyang deemed more and more of the nations too "corrupted" by ideas of freedom and democracy. Eventually, they didn't have "safe" communist-brother nations to send students to.

In any case, having studied in one of the nations that went for democracy tainted you as a possible counter-revolutionary - at least that is what happened to some.

Recently, Pyongyang has called for all Korean diplomats stationed around the world to send all their kids (but 1 I think it was) back to North Korea.

A probable sign Pyongyang is starting to get seriously worried it might collapse some day soon...