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North Korean teens face gulag for using ‘perverted’ slang words

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North Koreans face the gulag for using slang words after Kim Jong-un unleashed a bizarre new crackdown on ‘perverted’ language. The secretive state adopted the new measures in December, fearing that its teenage citizens were growing too comfortable with words popular in democratic South Korea. Now the authorities will inspect citizens’ phones, hunting for any … Read more

Artists transform an abandoned Stalin-era Russian gulag by painting murals of its lost residents

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Artists have tried to breathe new life into ghost town built on Stalin’s orders in Siberia. The spooky Gulag outpost of Kadykchan was officially closed after the fall of the Soviet Union and a coal mine explosion in 1996 which killed six. Now it has been repopulated by pictures of its lost residents in a … Read more