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[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

It's extremely common for citizens of the DPRK to visit, live, and/or work in the PRC. The two countries are on favorable terms. The DPRK has no "gulags," the GULAG administration was a part of the early-mid soviet penal system, it isn't a generic term for prisons in socialist countries.