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Summary and Analysis of the North Korea Witness on the Crimes against Humanity in North Korea |
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Once I was asked by a senior security officer to transport 1 ton of corn, 500 kilograms of potatoes, and 40 kilograms of hot peppers to his house. He was stealing from the settlement for his personal gain. At night, another security officer and I transported them..
[2006-01-25 14:36] |
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There is a top-secret crematory for every three or four detention settlements, where prisoners are used for biological tests, including the extraction of human fats to be used for the manufacture of cosmetics, or the dismemberment of male and female private parts fo..
[2006-01-23 16:39] |
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In September 1988, when I was taking a driving lesson, I had an opportunity to take a rest room for security officers. Myong-hak Lee, the driver of the chief political officer, began to talk enviously about a “human bed.” He further elaborated that female prisoner..
[2006-01-20 17:27] |
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The doctors in the settlements are young and come straight from medical college. When they are first assigned here, they have no experience and little practice. The families of security and guard officers know that they are extremely incompetent and do not trust th..
[2006-01-18 15:06] |
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Political prisoners working in the mines at Settlement No. 12 bitterly resented the degrading treatment and rioted in the early seventies. The prisoners ambushed the families of security and guard officers with shovels, picks, stick, axes and hammers when the offi..
[2006-01-16 17:30] |
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In 1988, two guards at Detention Settlement No.15 forced some political prisoners to scale the barbed wire fence and then killed them mercilessly so they could make an impressive report. Similar incidents occurred in many settlements because trigger happy guards o..
[2006-01-13 15:52] |
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In the fall of 1988, I was on ambush duty at Salpawi position at Settlement No. 13. At dawn, Sgt. Young-chul Kang, my deputy platoon leader (a son of the chief political officer of Settlement No.14 (Kaechon), discovered a political prisoner from the 19th unit,..
[2006-01-11 15:57] |
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During the summer of 1992, some two hundred prisoners were mobilized from the farm construction until at Life Detention Settlement No.22 to reconstruct a laboratory for the guard battalion headquarters. Their task was to connect the drainage to the sewage pool of..
[2006-01-09 15:35] |
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I always hated to be posted at the ammunition store at Detention Settlement No.22. It was so close to the jail that I could occasionally hear beatings and yelling clearly. One evening in the summer of 1990, for example, I could hear a Japanese wife, about fifty..
[2006-01-05 15:20] |
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In May 1993, I went to Gallery No.1 of the mine sector to get the coal supply for my guard unit. When I was reversing my truck to load coal, the clerk ran to me and said, “Sir, there is a fire at Gallery No.1 today and so I’m afraid you have to wait.” I left my t..
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