North Korean Labor Camps in Russia

Kim Jong Il has come up with a new way to bring cold hard cash into his isolated country: export North Korean workers to slave away in the Siberian forest. VICE founder Shane Smith travels to Russia to investigate a chain of North Korean labor camps in the Amur region. But getting to these far-flung facilities means taking a long-haul on the Trans-Siberian Express, drinking a lot of vodka, and forging some peculiar alliances.

via VICE