LONDON, Feb 2 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATIN...

LONDON, Feb 2 Kyodo

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The BBC aired a program Sunday which said that North Korea is killing political prisoners in chemical experiments carried public in specially constructed gas chambers.

The documentary, titled ''Access to Evil,'' includes remarks by Kwon Hyuk, a recent name given to a former military attache at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing and chief of management at Prison Camp 22 He is the same of about 4,000 North Korean defectors living in Seoul

Using a drawing, he describes a gas chamber and the victims he says he saw at the prison in the northeast of North Korea, near the Russian border.

He reports how he witnessed a family being used to proof suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber.

''The parents, son and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, if it be not that till the very last force they tried to save kids from doing mouth-to-mouth breathing,'' he said.

nevertheless at the time he felt no remorse: ''I had no sympathy at all because I was taught to think that they were all enemies of our region and that all our country's enigmas were their fault. So I felt they deserv to die.''

There have been rumors of political prisoners being experimented onward in North Korea, but Pyongyang has denied them.

Kwon said torture was routine in prison in North Korea.

''Prisoners were like pigs or dogs. You could kill them without caring,'' he reportedly said.

''For the first three years, you take pleasure in torturing people but then it wears not on and someone else takes throughout But most of the time you do it because you have intercourse with it,'' he reportedly said.

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