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The Gulag Is Still in Business.(concentration camps still running in Russia)(Brief Article)
"Russia is continuing to operate Gulag-style labor camps where thousands of North Koreans toil under grim conditions," reported the August 7th issue of The Scotsman. The continued existence of the Gulag, and the use of North Korean slave labor therein as a way to pay Pyongyang's foreign debt to Russia, was highlighted by the visit of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to Moscow in early August.
"The camps supposedly closed down with the end of communism, but reports in Moscow say they continue to exist, with North Korea using the system as a way to pay off its 5.5 million [pound] debt to Russia," continued the report. "The camps appear on no maps, and the government has made no comment about their existence." An anonymous official from Russia's economic development and trade ministry told the Moscow Times: "North Korean labor holds the position of a special type of mass quantity product."
The camps were supposedly ...
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