Chapter 7 examines the Korean deportation and the Korean’s new lives in Central Asia. The Koreans began to be deported in late August 1937. The trip to Central Asia by train generally took one month. Around 25 or more people would be crammed into one train wagon for one month. Many of the elderly and young children and infants died on the way to Central Asia. Koreans in the border villages with Manchuria and Korea were given the option of going there instead in lieu of deportation. Some five to ten thousand Koreans took this alternative. However, if there had truly been Japanese spies, the USSR would not have allowed this. Some two thousand Koreans remained on North Sakhalin working on the Soviet-Japanese joint ventures extracting oil, gas, timber, minerals and other resources despite an order for a complete deportation. These joint ventures produced hard currency (paid by Japan for resources extracted) for the Soviet leaders in Moscow.