World: North Korea

Kim Jong-il Orders Japanese Cars Confiscated

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered most Japanese cars in the communist country seized in a sign of his growing discontent with Japan imposing severe sanctions after the North’s detonation of a nuclear bomb last October, the Yonhap News Agency reported Monday quoting informed sources.

Source: The Korea Times (online), February 19, 2007

North Korea tests bio-arms on dwarves

Not only is North Korea planning to carry out a second nuclear test early next year, according to Britain’s MI6 secret security service, but it is also expanding its biological warfare program with thousands of people, including the disabled, dwarves and political prisoners as the guinea pigs, Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin is reporting.

Source: WorldNetDaily, November 4, 2006

Teen’s testimony of faith unstopped by death

A new report from a ministry with a longtime record of support for members of the persecuted Christian church has described the torture and death, and ultimate surviving ministry, of a Christian in North Korea, one the most restrictive nations in the world regarding people of faith.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 26, 2006

N. Koreans detail deadly experiments on prisoners

North Korean scientists are said to have conducted lethal gas experiments on political prisoners in the 1970s that were still happening as recently as 2002.

In 10 hours of interviews Monday, three North Koreans detailed chilling experiments in which prisoners were placed in glass chambers and exposed to
chemicals that killed them within hours, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group based in Los Angeles.

Mr. Cooper said the accounts came from North Koreans now living in South Korea and who purportedly were involved in the experiments.

Source: Washington Times (online), November 24, 2004

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