Testimony of Lee Sun-ok
Posted in Web on October 31st, 2002 2 Comments »
This description of life in a North Korean prison is so ghastly, I hope it’s just propaganda.
It was horrible to watch the prison doctor kicking the pregnant women with his boots. When a baby was born, the doctor shouted, “Kill it quickly. […] Kill it.” […] The prisoner/nurses, with trembling hands, squeezed the babies’ necks to kill them. […] I was so shocked with that scene that I still see the mothers weeping for their babies in my nightmares. I saw the baby-killing twice while I was in the prison.
I know that as a species we’re capable of acts of incredible brutality, but this seems too over-the-top to be real.