North Korea jails errant cheerleaders

TWENTY-ONE members of North Korean cheering squads who travelled to South Korea for international sports events are reportedly being held in a prison camp for talking about what they saw in the South.

Citing a North Korean man who recently fled to China, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper said the 21 young women had been detained about last November in the same prison camp where the man had been held.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service didn’t immediately confirm or deny the report.