Shocking news: North Korean cheerleaders imprisoned

This may not really be a posting for Asian Sirens, but I just felt like sharing this awfull news with you. Twenty-one members of North Korean cheering squads who traveled to South Korea for international sports events are being held in a prison camp for talking about what they saw in the South, a news report said Friday. Read the full story at CNN.com.

Why would this post not be appropriate for Asian Sirens? Lots of cute Korean girls and an interesting (if tragic) story.

It's a little bit political, isn't it?

Wow. Communism is AWESOME!

What's wrong with being political? This would hardly be the first time.

Communism doesn't work... capitalism doesn't work... I work.

Completely senseless! North Korea should have used this opportunity to send their cheerleaders as ambassadors for their country. Obviously they didn't see it that way. The draconian steps North Korea takes to isolate itself is wrong on so many levels.

from what i saw on CNN, north korea resembles warsaw ghetto in '43, just before jurgen stroop's troops ( unintended onomatopeia) "cleared" it. absolutely scary. NK looks like a giant concentration camp where prisoners have to watch themselves. i hope lil' kim will end up sharing cauldron of hot tar with hitler, stalin & mao.

"Stroop's troops" is not onomatopoeia; it's a rhyme. According to m-w.com, onomatopoeia is "the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)."

Next time, we'll discuss alliteration. ;)

sorry - a beer induced mistake. i was somewhat buzzed.

This reminds me of how everybody misues the term 'acronym' these days. An acronym is only an acronym if the letters form another word; if they don't, then it's just an abreviation.