London Observer (Feb 1): The gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

[Jack Rabbit]

Form the London Observer (Sunday Supplement of the Guardian Unlimited)
Dated Sunday February 1

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag
A series of shocking personal testimonies is now shedding light on Camp 22 - one of the country's most horrific secrets
By Antony Barnett

In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea's largest concentration camp, where thousands of men, women and children accused of political crimes are held.
Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.
Over the past year harrowing first-hand testimonies from North Korean defectors have detailed execution and torture, and now chilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret: gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings.
Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime.

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. Link to the BBC story referenced above

From the BBC Online
Dated Sunday February 1

Within prison walls
By Olenka Frenkiel
Reporter, This World

Kwon Hyok is one of about 4,000 North Korean defectors living in Seoul, South Korea.
Most escaped because of hunger, fear, torture, imprisonment or a simple hatred of the regime.
But Kwon Hyok is not one of those. In 1999 he was a North Korean intelligence agent stationed in Beijing when he was persuaded by the South Koreans to defect.
Six years before, in 1993, Kwon Hyok says he was Head of Security at prison camp 22 in Haengyong, an isolated area near the border with Russia.
Camp 22 is one of a network of prisons in North Korea modelled on the Soviet Gulag where hundreds of thousands of prisoners are held.

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[burrowowl]

2. So have the U$, UK and France

U$ soldiers in the 50's and 60's were tested as how to survive radiation and fallout.
Of course, this could give Bu$hie a good excuse for bombing them. Many he can use those mini-nukes he's been talking about.

[Lithos]

3. Not going to happen

No oil in N. Korea.

L-

[JohnLocke]

4. * doesn't give a damn about human rights

Only oil. Love of money is the root of all evil, I guess.

[Aidoneus]

5. actually, there is

some offshore fields, would take some bucks to exploit tho'.

Still not going to happen, because they can actually defend themselves.