[imText1]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 prisoners were assembled like logs of a raft and covered with sheets.
According to Mr. Lee, the officers of the 3rd National Security Bureau sleep on such beds. It was believed at that time that the 3rd bureau was responsible for secret executions, the study and development of torture techniques, and the operation of a human biological laboratory. What appalled me the most was their extraction of human fat. He said that prisoners were fried in a big pan for fat extraction and the results showed that women have 1.5 times the amount of fat that men do. When extracting human blood from prisoners hanging upside down, women produce more blood than men, he added. The bodies, after blood and fat extraction, are burned and the fats are used for special cosmetics for “Great Leader” and “Dear Leader.”
