North Korea’s cheerleaders: who are Kim Jong Un’s red coats?

There’s more than meets the eye to the Winter Olympic’s best-drilled cheerleaders

North Korea cheerleaders
(Image credit: Carl Court / Getty Images)

While North-South Korean diplomacy has at times stolen the spotlight from the athletes competing at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, there has also been a lower-level furore over North Korea’s cheerleading squad.

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