Large parts were encircled and sent to the gulags." On November 4, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller announced that up to 10,000 North Korean soldiers were stationed in Russia's ...

And of course it is a fascinating and horrifying window into the operation of North Korea’s gulag. One of the central dramas in the book is Shin’s revelation that he informed on his family. When he ...

The Gulag Lives On - Russia - June 2003... In the forests of southern Siberia, workers are still working as serfs in the Gulag, paying off North Korea's $3.8 billion Cold War debt. Kim Sung Chol came ...

And for North Koreans outside the camps, the fear of the gulag ensures their loyalty to ... un's government still has complete power over North Korea's people.

I survived a North Korean gulag. Why are people romanticising Kim Jong-un?' The once-elusive Kim Jong-un may be emerging as something of an international statesman, but North Korean artists in ...

A United Nations panel has accused North Korea of crimes against humanity, including systematic extermination, "murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual ...