Word: gulager
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...victim of U.S. militarism. He admits that, sure, the rulers of North Korea are kinda, sorta nasty, but they get an unduly bad rap in the American press and, in any case, our own leaders are no better. We, after all, have a “never-ending gulag full of black men in our prisons”—so who are we to judge...
Earlier this month, as it happens, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) aired a shocking report on North Korea’s sprawling network of concentration camps, modeled on the Soviet Gulag, which holds an estimated 200,000 or more inmates. The documentary’s centerpiece was an interview with Kwon Hyok, a former North Korean intelligence agent who defected to the South in 1999. He was once the head of security at Prison Camp 22—where, he now alleges, chemical weapons were tested on prisoners. “I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating...
However, this was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day brunch. And the love was, alas, sadly lacking. I struggle, for example, to think of anything less aphrodisiacal than borscht. Yet somehow it made an appearance on the menu. Beet soup may have its own Gulag-chic thing going, I guess, but it screams sex appeal about as much as a Russian shot putter in a catsuit...
...hosed down and beaten with an iron stick. But the next day, Kim's 50-yuan note reappeared, and she bribed her way out of the camp. A second journey to China a few months later also ended in failure. As a repeat refugee, Kim was dispatched to a gulag. This time, she had no 50-yuan notes to offer up. Every day for six months, she loaded bags of donated rice onto trucks, imagining what the rice would taste like. Her daily diet consisted of two corn cakes and salty water. "I saw people so weak that when they...
...NOTEBOOK Cambodia: Bullets & Ballots N. Korea: Gulag nation Japan: Time to panic? Milestones Verbatim Letters...