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N. Koreans detail deadly experiments on prisoners
Washington Times ^ | November 24, 2004 | Jeremy Kirk

Posted on 11/24/2004 6:30:29 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

North Korean scientists are said to have conducted lethal gas experiments on political prisoners in the 1970s that were still happening as recently as 2002.

In 10 hours of interviews Monday, three North Koreans detailed chilling experiments in which prisoners were placed in glass chambers and exposed to chemicals that killed them within hours, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group based in Los Angeles.

Mr. Cooper said the accounts came from North Koreans now living in South Korea and who purportedly were involved in the experiments.

"The openness and the specificity of the description of these murders was quite remarkable," Mr. Cooper said. "On the other hand, the lack of any inkling of remorse on the part of the individuals decades later — this kind of action I found to be quite shocking.

"The attitude of the scientists ... was these were political prisoners, they were as good as dead anyway, and therefore, utilizing them for experiments held really no moral implications whatsoever."

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; friends; northkorea; scientists
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1 posted on 11/24/2004 6:30:29 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Come on now, cut 'em a break. These guys were probably all abused as kids.


2 posted on 11/24/2004 6:34:06 AM PST by leadpencil1 (GW+4 HA HA HA)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

It's OK, because they all hate the US and Bush...


3 posted on 11/24/2004 6:35:00 AM PST by Guillermo (Michael Moore is fat)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Au votre santee!


4 posted on 11/24/2004 6:37:59 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It is their mind set to behave like this to anyone in their 'charge'. When they were confronted with UN outrage about the treatment of prisoners during the Korean conflict, they said that the prisoners were treated no differently than any criminal in any Korean jail. It was true because that's the way civilian detainees were treated.
5 posted on 11/24/2004 6:38:27 AM PST by SMARTY ('Stay together, pay the soldiers, forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus, to his sons)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

No surprise here. Just another level of savagery.


6 posted on 11/24/2004 6:41:05 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Well if they didn't put underwear on their head, I guess it's no big deal.


7 posted on 11/24/2004 6:44:22 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: billorites

Madeline Albright, the first person I thought of also.


8 posted on 11/24/2004 6:44:58 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

ping


9 posted on 11/24/2004 6:48:23 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Madeline Albright has all of the qualities of a witch.

She is one scary individual.


10 posted on 11/24/2004 6:49:15 AM PST by blakep
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To: SMARTY

'The experiments are on a different scale and for different reasons than those of the Nazis, Mr. Cooper said.'


well as long as they weren't acting like the Nazis, then Madelaine could overlook it. She was imagining herself as "Anna" in "the King and I", and couldn't be interrupted...


11 posted on 11/24/2004 6:50:04 AM PST by bitt (I miss Teresa already.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

To "paraphrase" that famous lib quote "A dictator that provides free medical experiments, is a dictator I like"


12 posted on 11/24/2004 6:53:20 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: bitt

Its what the Clintons had in mind...


13 posted on 11/24/2004 6:55:03 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Trying to ping again. Every now and then FR drops my pings.


14 posted on 11/24/2004 7:00:30 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Viking2002; backhoe; Mia T; Alamo-Girl; Coleus; nopardons; ArmyBratproud; Former Military Chick; ...

Trying to ping again....


15 posted on 11/24/2004 7:01:30 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Yeah, where's Amnesty International, the U.N., and all the Hollywood libs denouncing this. *Crickets chirping*


16 posted on 11/24/2004 7:02:53 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (EEE)
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To: blakep
Madeline Albright has all of the qualities of a witch.

A witch? I think she is a lot worse than that.

17 posted on 11/24/2004 7:03:43 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

"North Korean scientists are said to have conducted lethal gas experiments on political prisoners in the 1970s that were still happening as recently as 2002.

"The attitude of the scientists ... was these were political prisoners, they were as good as dead anyway, and therefore, utilizing them for experiments held really no moral implications whatsoever."

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So where is the outrage from the UN and human rights groups, which go into seizures, when we strip some terrorists naked?


18 posted on 11/24/2004 7:15:45 AM PST by FairOpinion (Thank you Swifties, POWs & Vets. We couldn't have done it without you.)
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To: billorites

When the regime of Kim Jong-il finally fails and falls, and as we did with the fall of the USSR and they opened the KGB archives (before being buttoned up again) we in the West may only have a few days or weeks to get into the Korean Workers Party archives in Pyongyang at Party headquarters, and get out their internal intelligence documents that detail, from their side, the travels and negotiations of various naive, 'useful idiot' Americans to Pyongyang, such as Madeline Albright who shamelessly toasts a man who orders chemical weapons experiments on human beings (and comments on how wonderfully impressive his Nuremburg-esque 'mass games' were in the stadium while later dancing with brainwashed little kids singing such lovely kindergarten tunes as "We Will Slit The Throats Of The Imperialists Until They Bleed No More"), and other American saps who went on Appeasement Missions up there, such as President Clinton's half-(wit)brother or Jimmy Carter or JN Ambassador Bill Richardson or Jack Pritchard and Sig Hecker.

In the Korean Worker's Party offices that would have tracked, deceived, used and managed such shit-eaters (as the Soviets would disdainfully call their 'useful idiots' in the West), it will be very, very interesting to see what the North Korean internal notes do say.

I say, obtain, translate and publish these entirely and RUIN for good the careers and legacies of those disgraceful Americans who went up there and gave that monster and his father more time via appeasement to carry out this incontrovertible and dastardly crimes against humanity.

19 posted on 11/24/2004 7:20:33 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I'll take 1 good "LET'S ROLL!" over 1,000 meaningless & vulgar "ALLAH AHKBAR"'s, any day!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; OahuBreeze; Steel Wolf; yonif; SevenofNine

sorry for the rant, but i really get going whenever I see these photos of so-called "Americans" and on the other hand know what the DPRK has done and is still doing to human beings


20 posted on 11/24/2004 7:21:58 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I'll take 1 good "LET'S ROLL!" over 1,000 meaningless & vulgar "ALLAH AHKBAR"'s, any day!)
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