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There have been reports of
North Korean human experimentation. These reports show
human rights abuses similar to those of
Nazi and
Japanese human experimentation in
World War II. These allegations of human rights abuses are denied by the
North Korean government, who claim that all prisoners in
North Korea are humanely treated.
Allegations
The
human rights charity
Christian Solidarity Worldwide details on its website allegations of chemical experiments done to
political prisoners, and an apparent eyewitnesses report about seven people who died a slow agonizing death in two gas chambers, including a mother who held her youngest child as she died.
2004 BBC report
A
BBC television programme on
February 1,
2004, with the title,
Access to Evil in the
This World series
(External Link
), detailed other allegations.
In the programme, a former North Korean woman prisoner tells how 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves, which all the women had to eat despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 were dead after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat would allegedly have meant
reprisals against them and their families.
Kwon Hyok, a former prison Head of Security at Camp 22, described laboratories equipped respectively for
poison gas,
suffocation gas and
blood experiments, in which 3 or 4 people, normally a family, are the experimental subjects. After undergoing medical checks, the chambers are sealed and poison is injected through a tube, while "scientists" observe from above through glass. In a report reminiscent of the earlier account of a family of seven, Kwon Hyok claims to have watched one family of 2 parents, a son and a daughter die from suffocating gas, with the parents trying to save the children using
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for as long as they'd the strength.
An interview with Kim Sang Hun, described as a distinguished human rights activist, was also broadcast. Kim Sang Hun showed documents that he says were brought from Camp 22 by an escapee and which he's sure are not forgeries. These documents each say that a certain prisoner is to be transferred for experimentation with chemical weapons. A London based expert on Korea also considers it likely that the documents are genuine and Kwon Hyok stated independently that such documents were used at Camp 22.
North Korea refuses access by any outside observers to Camp 22.
Other reports
Lee Soon Ok, is another North Korean defector, and one of the few to have escaped from life imprisonment in an "Absolute Control Area" through
China to
South Korea. In her original defectors testimony, her US Senate testimony
(External Link) and her prison memoir
Eyes of the Tailless Animals (ISBN 0-88264-335-5) she recounted witnessing two instances of lethal human experimentation. Allegedly, her account is backed by satellite photographs, but how such events were seen hasn't been disclosed.
In 2004, a scientist from North Korea came forward with a personal account of events in
1999 that agrees closely with Kwon Hyok's report. His recent statement to a South Korean
NGO was covered in an article by Barbara Demick in the Los Angeles Times
(External Link) but wasn't given much coverage in the South Korean media.
Rebuttal
Four family members of a refugee called Kang Song-guk said, at a press conference in
Pyongyang (North Korean Capital) in late March 2004, that they'd faked the papers the BBC used as the basis for the human experimentation allegations.
(External Link) The family-members alleged that the documents were forgeries because; some words used in the document are uncommon in the DPRK; the seal is incorrect in some details; and one of the alleged victims' birthplace is listed incorrectly.
(External Link)
How the family members of an escaped political prisoner could know about prison camp reporting policy, bureaucratic wording and minor details of governmental seals was left entirely unexplained at the government-controlled and heavily censored "press conference".
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