Posted on 04/29/2005 12:32:43 PM PDT by rightalien
North Korea's hardline communist regime is using deadly nerve gas on its own citizens and possibly is operating experimental gas chambers, according to a Jewish human rights group.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told WorldNetDaily he went to Asia to talk with North Korean defectors who said they witnessed gruesome experimentations.
Cooper began the investigation after learning of a BBC documentary in February 2004 based on interviews with a former North Korean official who had defected. The rabbi interviewed that man and two others, who confirmed the claims.
The Rabbi interviewed a 55-year-old chemist who said he was in charge of an experiment to test the effect of deadly nerve gas on political prisoners.
"He said he was involved in the killing of two people – one who did not expire for two and a half hours, and the second didn't die till three and a half hours had passed," Cooper told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a documentary that aired last night on the radio program "Dispatches."
Soon Ok Lee, a North Korean now living in the United States, escaped from a political prison camp where she says she witnessed chemical testing on humans at least once or twice.
North Korea's Camp 22 prison
Cooper said the Simon Wiesenthal Center intends to pursue action against the North Korean regime for possible crimes against humanity.
The rabbi told WND that after talking with U.S. officials in Washington, President Bush indicated to him his personal interest during a brief encounter at a White House Hannukah celebration in December.
"The president was very animated and emotional about this issue," Cooper said.
While admitting the political situation is complex amid tension over North Korea's nuclear program, Cooper believes international pressure can produce "behavioral changes" in Pyongyang.
"We need to send a message to North Korean officials that you are going to be held accountable personally for this kind of behavior," he said.
As WorldNetDaily reported, South Korea officially has ignored the charges, fearing a confrontation that might hurt relations between the two countries.
Yesterday, human rights activists in Asia, Europe and North America staged North Korea Freedom Day, with rallies in a number of cities to protest Pyongyang's human rights violations.
In the BBC report, a witness described watching entire families being put in glass chambers at a North Korean prison camp and gassed while scientists took notes.
Kwon Hyuk, who has changed his name, was the former military attaché at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing and the chief of management at the prison, known as Camp 22.
"I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber," he said. "The parents, son and and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing."
Hyuk drew detailed diagrams of the gas chamber.
"The glass chamber is sealed airtight. It is 3.5 meters wide, 3 meters long and 2.2 meters high. [There] is the injection tube going through the unit. Normally, a family sticks together and individual prisoners stand separately around the corners. Scientists observe the entire process from above, through the glass."
According to the report, estimates of the number of prisoners held in the North Korean gulag could be as many as 200,000 in 12 or more centers. Camp 22 is thought to hold 50,000 people, including critics of the regime and Christians.
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Gruesome experiments on political prisoners?
There's no way Dubya's gonna allow those bastards to acquire the bomb.
You had any word about these alleged gassings?
When will people learn that you cannot have relations with folks that conduct nerve-gas experiments on political prisoners. The old, 'If we could just talk more and if we were just more understanding, they would understand our point of view' routine doesn't work with people who have sold their souls.
"There's no way Dubya's gonna allow those bastards to acquire the bomb."
Too late, I'm afraid.
And the democrats of the USA love this guy. Go figure. They never met or loved a leftist dictator they couldn't just put a big wet kiss on. Death won't come soon enough for that pig in N.K.
...and there's no way those bastards in the MSM will refrain from screaming at him and second-guessing him at every turn.
Unfortunately, GW can't undo what Beelze-Bubba has already done.
molon labe.
wait! i hear its a very peaceful way to die. Vey aserene. Beyh beauytiggful.
He liked Stalin in the 1930's.
Then Stalin signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler. So, Seeger liked Hitler too.
Seeger sang at concerts promoting Isolationism so that England would be alone in Europe fighting Hitler.
But then, Hitler attacked Stalin. So Seeger hated Hitler and wanted us to get into the war to help Uncle Joe.
10-20 years later, Seeger realized that Stalin was a bad guy and stopped liking him.
He decided to support Castro instead.
I imagine that Seeger likes the North Korean regime just fine.
The South Korean govt. is very left, and we know the left NEVER learns.
When the Kim Jong Il terror state finally collapses and the world looks in, we will see yet another socialist experiment turned nightmare, and the world will wring its' hands and say "how did this happen?". It happened for many reasons, but the Clintons and Albrights and their pals China will be as guilty as Karl Marx. Pyongyang should have been vaporized by the heat of ten-thousand suns a long time ago and its people liberated.
It's not the fault of marxizm, it's because, once again, the world has turned its back on the forward march of history leaving a ruined and starving nation in its wake, easy pickin's for a power mad dictator to step all over.
I don't know, this stuff has been happening for a long time now. You think we have a problem with illegals, China has been getting their share of NKs for a long time. Can you imagine how bad your country has to be to flee to China?
China sends them all back to be executed.
I'll bet that this story is absolutely true, and I'll also bet that most people who read it won't believe it and will dismiss it out of hand, despite what history has taught us about fascist regimes.
Well, it is cheaper than feeding them.
Sun Ok Lee (sp?) testified before U.S. Congress - this is all documented even on MSNBC. She also was forced to participate in experiments where NK's were fed poisoned lettuce. She watche dthem retch and vomit and cough up blood and die. This has been common knowledge for years. We need to crush "the Donger" asap. And Madeleine Albright drank toasts with this human excrement.
"The Hidden Gulag"
Long read but very illuminating.
http://www.hrnk.org/TheHiddenGulag-press.pdf
These horrors are happening now, in our time, and we are witness to the apologists who have been and still are, complicit.
Perhaps by our silence, someday our children may ask why we were complicit. Ceratyinly the North Koreans will someday look at the USA (and their brethren in South Korea) as a less-than-moral people that was aware of and yet permitted torture and depravity in the interest of seeking a "diplomatic solution"
PS: My money is on the Christian groups that assist refugees, to help crack this rotten regime from the inside.
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