Monday 22 January 2018

Keeping a people on a tight leash : Spies or cheerleaders

 North Korean cheerleaders are pictured at the World Student Games in 2003
North Korean cheerleaders are pictured at a World Student Games

Kim's secret agents descend on South Korea’s Winter Olympics

Kim Jong-Un's secretive regime believes its citizens are not capable of deciding what is good for themselves.  They must therefore be teleguided at every turn.  It is in line with this belief that North Korea's 400-strong Olympic delegation will be packed with state spies and secret agents.  They have a mission to prevent athletes from defecting, it's been revealed.

More than ten per cent of the people heading over the border to South Korea will be on instructions to keep those representing Kim Jong-un's communist enclave from behaving strangely.

North Korea's agents are expected to pose as reporters, medics, musicians and cheerleaders, said Seo Jae Pyong, head of the Association of North Korean Defectors.

"The ratio will be at least one agent per ten participants," he said.

 Hyon Song-wol seen with other North Korea delegates in Seoul today
Hyon Song-wol, a former mistress of Kim, seen with other North Korea delegates in Seoul today

It is strange that 22 athletes will be accompanied by 24 coaches, 21 media representatives and dozens of medical staff.

Delegates had agreed already that the North would send a 140-strong orchestra and over 200 cheerleaders - the famed "army of beauties" to support the Olympic delegation.

The primary mission of the security agents will be to watch the words and actions of the participants. They will not be allowed to say anything disparaging about the North Korean system.

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