North Korean athletes at Winter Olympics desperate to avoid ‘hellish GULAG fate’ of 1966 World Cup squad

The homecoming of the 1966 North Korean squad saw them publicly shamed, arrested and thrown into a concentration camp for failing to bring about national glory
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