The Independent Terry McCarthy Helen Womack 3/13/1994 SEVERAL hundred North Koreans have escaped from gulag- style logging camps in Siberia. The mass break-out turns a spotlight on the shadowy camps where, Russian journalists say, North Koreans are kept as ‘virtual slaves’ to cut timber in a shameful deal that is profitable to Moscow and Pyongyang. … Continue reading N Korean loggers flee Russian ‘slave’ camps