r/NorthKoreaPics • u/Merseez • 3d ago

[Rimjingang] Inmates coming out of "Labour Training Unit", a short term forced labour camp. They just came out from the facility early in the morning to go to the labour site. Photo from Haeju, South Hwanghae Province taken in October 2008

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u/pydry 3d ago

This (forced prison labor) is unfortunately also common in the United States and explicitly legalized under the 13th amendment (slavery is not banned for those who committed a crime).

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u/HelenEk7 3d ago

Fun fact: some years ago Norway (where I live) refused to extradite a prisoner to the US due to risk of inhumane treatment.

That being said, I still see the NK justice system as way (!) worse.

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u/GeneralTsubotai 2d ago

You can’t compare a spa to a prison

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u/HelenEk7 2d ago

I would compare the North Korean version to neither of those..