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A series of shocking personal testimonies is now shedding light on Camp 22 - one of the country's most horrific secrets.
Antony Barnett
Sunday February 1, 2004
The Observer
In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away
in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea's largest concentration camp, where thousands of
men, women and children accused of political crimes are held.
Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of
babies born to prisoners to kill them.
Over the past year harrowing first-hand testimonies from North Korean defectors have detailed execution
and torture, and now chilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret:
gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings.
Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left
to an agonizing death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so
far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime.
Kwon Hyuk, who has changed his name, was the former military attaché at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing.
He was also the chief of management at Camp 22. In the BBC's This World documentary, to be broadcast tonight,
Hyuk claims he now wants the world to know what is happening.
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