Like his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Mugabe who ordered the arrest of the Zimbabwe Olympic Team for failing to win medals at the recently concluded Rio 2016 Summer Olympics; President of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un has his own punishment in store for his country’s Olympic Team.
Prior to the Games, Kim Jong-un had warned his country’s athletes to return with at least 5 gold medals and 12 other medals, or risk being sent to work in the coal mines.
The North Korean Olympic team returned to Pyongyang with just seven medals, including two golds- which, unfortunately was not the President’s expected target.
Expert on the secretive nation, Toshimitsu Shigemura, said:
“Those who won medals will be rewarded with better housing allocations, better rations, a car and maybe other gifts from the regime.
“But Kim is going to be angry and disappointed at these results.
“Those he feels have let him down are likely to be punished by being moved to poorer quality housing, having their rations reduced and, in the worst-case scenario, being sent to the coal mines as punishment.”
Another reason for getting punished by the tyranical Asian President is that the athletes allegedly interracted with the South Korea Olympic Team, who went home with 21 medals, including nine golds. North and South Korea are longtime bitter rivals, hence further escalating Jong-un’s wrath.
Kim Jong-un set to Punish North Korea’s Olympic Team
