North Korean Labor Camps (Part 1 of 7)

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Published 2011-12-19

North Korea has come up with a new way to bring cold hard cash into its isolated country: export North Korean workers to slave away in the Siberian forest (often without telling them they're no longer in North Korea). We set out to investigate these camps and almost landed ourselves in quite a bit of trouble.

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All Comments (21)

@VICE 1 year ago

WATCH NEXT: What North Korea Doesn’t Want You To See - https://youtu.be/poHTA94-BeY
@ZenEmir 4 years ago

i miss old vice man, felt like some true internet culture
@yourneighbour5738 5 years ago

In case you are thinking "Wow Vice doing good story!?" Video was done 8 years ago.
@iandhr1 3 years ago

"I've been to the most fucked up place on earth twice." What an opening.
@jellyguar7113 3 years ago

"Fun" fact Kim jung il was still ruling when they went there, but died 2 days before this video aired
@jeanbatisseur2916 2 years ago

Vice this is exactly the type of content we want to see. Real journalism, real people talking about stuff we dont know about.
@mai-qn7cs 5 years ago

Please, never fire this man. He is comedy gold.
@zitaotao1925 4 years ago

North Koreans : actually scared of Kim Jong Un The rest of the world : makes fun of him
@EPIKSTER 1 year ago

old vice man is an actual vibe, hate that they outed him
@Wilhelmen 5 years ago

"You dont mind if I drink some vodka with you?" When you hear this, you know youre in Russia
@TotallyArrJay 8 years ago

A video of a trip into Russia has to have a Russian man asking to drink vodka
@mcgnso 3 years ago

Does anybody else come back and watch this every year or 2? Vice used to make some great stuff.
@RozzRoid 4 years ago

🇰🇵 just realised this place has an emoji as if anyone from their country can even use it ha
@kscck00 8 years ago

Shane is probably my favorite VICE reporter.
@garrettyankton5411 2 years ago

North Korea in the early 2000’s was a legitimately bad place to be for basically anyone. It was worse than Afghanistan or Iraq of the same time. The fact that Shane went during this time to North Korea and wasn’t assassinated once he got back is truly amazing. This man has balls of steel.
@jarionscarlight 1 year ago

I missed this generation of VICE. If they stayed like this, they would still be a profitable journalism company today.
@mermaidonline1929 5 years ago

By talking to these North Koreans, he endangered them.
@carlobarberi2540 5 years ago

Shane Smith is the living embodiment of what vice is suppose to be. I think as a smaller outlet they were more effective in being unique but with mainstream success vice is not what it was. These documentarys take you on an adventure which is cinematic with it's characters , music and feel. I hope Shane Smith gets back in the field more like how it was previously.
@gameros2012 2 years ago

I love this documentary, there is so much personality put into it it's insane, now i do like some of the new ones being done, but i gotta admit, Vice has lost so much of their personality and just kinda feel like a normal news network with the exception that the reporters go and get shot at a couple times.
@joopbertus8494 3 years ago

You've got to admit this is the best vice video there is. Being drunk smoking cigarettes and making friends with the funniest people there are. And a little bit history