About the NK gulag and Soviet NK, how is the NK gulag different?
First of all, the gulag is gulag everywhere. There are some general characteristics found in the totalitarian state. The main issue of the gulag is to eliminate them, not exterminate them. Extermination is another thing. But it is to eliminate – put them apart from the society. They are prisoners, they are obliged to work in horrible conditions, they can die, but it does not matter as long as they are apart from the society. But in Asian concentration camps, Chinese or North Korean, there was something I didnt find in others. There is a greater intention of education (brainwash), propaganda, to oblige people to change to change their mind, and ultimately to create a new man. Kang Chul Hwan, of Yoduk camp, he had to learn the biography of Kim Jong Il, forced to do self criticism and taught of the state ideology. That was practiced in the Soviet Union too, but not so much as in China, North Korea or Vietnam. Special characteristics of the North Korean gulags are their national characteri
