The Hidden Gulag - US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

The Hidden Gulag Second Editionwipe themselves. The cells in which the womengave birth were infested with lice, which evengot into the women’s vaginas. The women’s skinfestered and cracked from being scratched withdirty hands.Mrs. Lee thought that the women subjected tothese mistreatments suffered mental as well asphysical harm.Mrs. Lee’s testimony was given at a conferencein Tokyo in December 2008 attended by thepresent author. 110he was again interrogated and tortured. Followingthat, he was sent to the “re-revolutioningzone” at the No. 15 Kwan-li-so political penallabor colony at Yodok. His photograph andtestimony appears on page 60, along with otherformer prisoners from Yodok.WITNESS: Former Detainee # 1Refouled at Musan, 1997FORCED REPATRIATION: MUSANCORRIDORWITNESS and TESTIMONY: Mr. KimTae-jinRefouled at Musan, August 1987.Mr. Kim Tae-jin was repatriated to Musan inAugust 1987. After interrogation and torture atthe Musan An-jeon-bu ku-ryu-jang, he was transferredto the Chongjin Bo-wi-bu ku-ryu-jang where110 Her testimony in Korean and Japanese languages can befound at the “NO FENCE” website, http://nofence.netlive.ne.jp/.Former Detainee # 1 was born in 1967 inChongjin, North Hamgyong province. He servedten years as a radio operator in the North Koreanmilitary. Upon discharge, he became a lowlevelcourier in business transactions betweenNorth Korea and China. In 1997, he was arrestedin Yanji, where he had gone to collect moneyowed in return for goods imported from Japanand re-exported to China without North Koreanauthorization. Turned over to the Bo-wi-bu(National Security Agency) police at Musan, hewas interrogated for a day and then turned overto the An-jeon-bu People’s Safety Agency policefor a week of interrogation. He was then turnedover again to the Bo-wi-bu at Chongjin, whoplaced him in a police jail in Song-pyong districtin Chongjin. There, for twenty days he wasshackled and forced to kneel without movingwhenever he was not undergoing additionalinterrogation sessions. During these multipleinterrogations, Former Detainee # 1 was ques-131