BBC, NK Conducted Living Body Experiment In Concentration Camp

On February 9 (local time), the British government-run broadcasting provider, the BBC, will telecast a documentary that contains information that North Korea has carried out live human experiments for testing of its chemical and biological weapons on children, women and political criminals who are in custody in a concentration camp.

“The Access to Evil,” part of the BBC’s series of “This World” programs, will divulge that North Korea has established gas cells and carried out chemical and biological experiments to murder political criminals and their family members, reported the BBC’s Internet edition on February 1.

The BBC has produced this program based on official top-secret North Korean government documents and the statements of Kwon Hyuck (pseudonym), who took charge in 1993 of the 22nd concentration camp in North Korea, just next to the Russian boundaries. The BBC has disclosed that Kwon drew a picture of the gas cell and testified as follows:

“It is customary for them to carry out the experiments on an entire family. I have personally seen the gas experiment conducted. Until the last moment, the parents were trying to breathe into to their children’s mouths in order to save their lives, even as they were throwing up and dying. The scientists were looking at the scene through the transparent window,” Kwon disclosed, adding, “At that time, thinking of them as a criminals of the country, I couldn’t have any compassion for them. The wardens have been enjoying the torture for the first three years since they took the job.”

A woman named Lee Sun-ok, who was detained in the concentration camp and appears on this program revealed, “One warder accosted me, giving wet soaked Chinese cabbage. He ordered me to distribute it to 50 healthy women. 50 women who ate part of the cabbage screamed for help and died within twenty minutes.” This documentary is scheduled to disclose a government document that reads, “We make use of political criminals as tools for live human experiments and biological weapons manufacture.”

The journalist of BBC who appeared on this program remarked, “I have seen the North Korean documents that stated ‘Deliver the prisoners for liquid gas experiments that are to be conducted for the use of chemical weapons manufacture.’ ”

Jei-Gyoon Park phark@donga.com