“It would be a lie to say that I felt compassionate about the kids who were killed there with such painful death,” says Kwon Hyuk as he remembers the time he commanded a concentration camp to North Korea.
The horrible torture and experiments they did to people described camp 22 employees and prisoners, also known as a concentration camp Huryongin North Korea that operated until 2012.
The Camp 22was buried in the remote mountains of the city Hamgyong. This is a hell that was “last destination»Many prisoners, who suffered extreme torture.
‘Under society and the regime in which I was at that time, I only felt that they were the enemies. So I didn’t feel at all sympathy or compassion For them. I saw a whole family suffocate with chill and in the end to dies In the gas chamber, “Kwon Hyuk told the BBC in 2004.
‘Parents, son and daughter murdered wormwood. Parents vomited and died, “he said, describing the death of an entire family, stressing that the parents”they were desperately trying to bring their children back to their last breath».
Soon Ok-Lee, former imprisoned for seven years In one of the North Korean camps, in his 1999 book, Eyes of the Tailoss Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman, he described the horror of torture and imprisonment.
Within the concentration camp Kaechonin the Pyungbuk province, he said it was done witness incomprehensible acts Experimentation against prisoners by staff.
One day, he said, was ordered to given poison to 50 healthy female prisoners. ‘One of the guards gave me a basket full impregnated cabbage and he told me to don’t eat it But to give it to 50 women, ”she told the BBC. And continuing he had said: ‘They screamed by the pain all those who had eaten from the poisoned cabbage and were dried blood».
Soon told the agency that the staff did “chemical experiments»With a new substance, poisoning prisoners to control its effectiveness. “I can’t forget this picture“, He said. “I wonder how a man can kill another man in this way.”
In 2023, the Ministry of Unification of South Korea compiled reports of such violations in a 450-page mammoth Based on the testimonies of more than 500 North Korean apostates.
According to the report, officials from the North Korean Ministry of Social Security blackmailing families to leave their relatives, and to become human animals threatening to send them to concentration camps and prisons.
The people with disabilitiesespecially those with nannyalso deprived of human rights and medical procedures were carried out against them despite their will.
In 2015, nurses in a hospital allegedly accepted orders to create a ‘dwarf list’moving to torture which were subsequently used for to prevent people with nannism from giving birth.
A woman with nannism allegedly was forced to undergoing hysterectomy – A surgery to remove its uterus and prevent child acquisition – in 2017. In general, the Women in custody were subjected to inhuman torturesuch as beating, sexual abuse and exhausting food deprivation, in a point of malnutrition.
It is said that uncontrollable violations of rights by the state in communities of concentration camps and elsewhere. Among the crimes were public executions, torture and arbitrary arrests.
Kwon Hyuk, had told the BBC that they had been placed Laboratories to distribute poisonous gases to chambers as part of the horrifying experiments to prisoners. Three or four people, usually a family, suffocated in a chamber after medical examinations.
The booths were sealed and pumped gas in from a tube as scientists stood and observed people to die.
Im Cheon-Yong North Korean Special Forces, confirmed similar allegations and said he was aware of the experiments which were held in prisoners with the aim of strengthening the army with biological and chemical threats of war. “For trials of biological and chemical warfare, we needed “objects”“, He told the German DW agency in 2014.
North Korea remains one of the most inviolable Places on Earth. Behind large walls, the country holds its perception of ‘freedom»Through the imposition of strict security checks and an approach zero tolerance to disagreement.
But even further away from the angle, it is said that there are even more terrible features of a dystopian status Under the guise of scientific research, as the Daily Mail says.
The apostates claim to be witnessed barbaric “experiments” In humans- mothers, fathers and children- in the name of preparing a strong army.
For the commanders of the camps, the goals are justified by the means. Characterizing the disagreement as enemies of state.