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| 2004-03-31 | |
| SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean engineer credited with smuggling out documents on alleged gas chamber experiments in the isolated communist state said Tuesday that the papers were fake. Kang Pyong Sop, 59, said he was tricked into handing fabricated documents over to South Korean human rights activists, according to the North's state-run KCNA news agency. Rights activists in February released papers they said were from Kang that verified North Korea was conducting gas chamber experiments on political prisoners. However, there was no way to confirm the documents' authenticity. It was unclear under what circumstances Kang held the news conference. "The documents on 'experiment of chemical weapons on human bodies' widely misused by enemies were false documents fabricated by my first son Kang Song Guk - who defected to the South 7 years ago - and my family," Kang said on Tuesday, according to KCNA. Rights activists had said that Kang, an engineer at the North Korean chemicals complex, was arrested with his wife and a son by Chinese authorities while trying to cross from China to Laos on Jan. 3 in an attempt to defect to South Korea, where Kang's son Song Guk had already gone. Kang said he met Song Guk in China in November, and the son gave him fake, blank official documents and asked him to write in the accounts of gas chamber experiments. The son claimed such documents could fetch "a huge sum of money" from South Korean human rights activists, Kang said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 This is small potatoes. We're talking about a government that has routinely issued wintertime edicts to its provinces recommending that the infirm, handicapped or retarded have their food withheld so the general population will not starve as badly. These guys are so long overdue for regime change they make China's politburo look benevolent. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-03 12:00:04 AM |