Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison system ... of labour camps north of Magadan, after guards uncovered an escape plot.

And for North Koreans outside the camps, the fear of the gulag ensures their loyalty to a paranoid regime that's highly conscious of its own questionable long-term outlook. Even so, a combination ...

Very serious ties to terrorists & Progressive Democrats if it's her. Arrest them all and throw them in the DC gulag in solitary confinement just like J6'ers!" Other posts and images shared on X ...