WATCH: North Korean cheerleaders stealing show at Winter Olympics

North Korea decided to send 22 athletes and 230 women in a “cheering section” to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in a joint effort with South Korea to re-engage, though the countries are at war in a decades-long standoff.

And the cheering section has so far garnered more attention than the athletes.

Videos of the women singing and dancing in their seats at various Olympic events are making their way around the internet:

Dit is dus echt heel bijzonder. #BNR #pyeongchangOlympics2018 pic.twitter.com/mDha25Px9g

— Thomas Schuurman (@ThomasSchuurman) February 10, 2018

North Korean cheering squad’s first song “반갑습니다 Nice to meet you” pic.twitter.com/JSi29R8r6u

— Sohee Kim (@soheefication) February 10, 2018

Collaboration with @BTS_twt ? North Korean cheering squad shows off Korean ballet moves while BTS’ mega hit song Blood, Sweat & Tears is playing pic.twitter.com/TLveHdCQuC

— Sohee Kim (@soheefication) February 10, 2018

The juxtaposition of North Korean women with hip-hop is certainly wild to behold. But some observers are quick to point out that the cheerleaders do not make up for the reportedly terrible conditions of their home country.

Reasonably confident that their family members, back in the North Korea death camp they call a country, would be executed if the “cheerleaders” either stop cheering, or defect. https://t.co/xLtr4g1MfV

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) February 11, 2018

Don’t they realize that what they are charmed by here is probably as close as you can get to a hideous real-world version of the Handmaid’s Tale?

https://t.co/ch7jiL6BTK

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) February 11, 2018