The consequences of sporting failure are far less palatable.
The coach of the national soccer team, who lost all three of their 2010 World Cup games, was reportedly expelled from the Worker's Party and forced to become a builder for his "betrayal".
A South Korean newspaper quoted an intelligence source as saying those who performed badly were even sent to prison camps, though that has been disputed by North Korean athletes.
North Korean defector Lee Chang-soo told Reuters in March that the difference between winning and losing an international competition could even be a matter of life and death.
A bronze medal winner at the 1989 World Judo Championships, Lee's life was turned upside down when he lost to a South Korean in the final of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games.
South and North Korea fought a fratricidal war in 1950-53 and the two countries remain technically at war since the conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
Defeated North Koreans -- especially those who lose to South Koreans -- were forced to work in "gulags" where rights group Amnesty International says 200,000 citizens are forced to work with little food under threat of execution, he said.
Lee was sent to a coal mine for his failure.
I don't know why some of the Asian countries get so serious with the Olympics. It's supposed to be fun I mean, they wouldn't even let that girl sing at the Beijing opening ceremony because she was too ugly
I don't know why some of the Asian countries get so serious with the Olympics. It's supposed to be fun I mean, they wouldn't even let that girl sing at the Beijing opening ceremony because she was too ugly
Malaysia and Japan remain unbothered
I think is because they demand perfection and dedication. During the 70s and 80s, Eastern Europe was the same way. Especially Russia and East Germany.
A mess but that's not surprising. Why are they even allowed to even step foot at these Olympics.. I don't know why.
And um, S. Korea is ****ting hard on N. Korea.
I mean, they wouldn't even let that girl sing at the Beijing opening ceremony because she was too ugly 
