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Gordon
Cucullu- Contributor
Former Green
Beret lieutenant colonel, Gordon Cucullu is now an editorialist,
author and a popular speaker. Born into a military
family, he lived and served for more than thirteen years in East
Asia, including eight years in Korea. For his Special Forces
service in Vietnam he was awarded a Bronze Star, Vietnamese Cross
of Gallantry, and the Presidential Unit Commendation. After separation
from the Army, he worked on Korea and East Asian affairs at both
the Pentagon and Department of State as well as an executive
for General Electric in Korea. His first major non-fiction work,
Separated
at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin, is
based in large part on his extensive experience in
Korea and East Asia as a governmental insider and businessman.
[website]
[go to Cucullu index]
 Chambers
of Horror
The North Korean contribution to the Axis of Evil...
[Gordon Cucullu] 8/17/04
Post WW II
the world recoiled in horror at the revelations of the Nuremberg
trials
and endless film from the death camps. Some
of the most revolting pieces of evidence against both the Nazis
and the Japanese were the so-called ‘medical experiments’ that
were conducted against helpless prisoners. These involved all
manner of horrors including testing for effectiveness of diseases
and poison gasses. In consequence, international treaties were
crafted outlawing use of poison gas for military purposes and
against civilian populations and resolutions were passed regarding
genocide and mass murder. Never again! So the world seemed to
say.
But today reports indicate that these despicable experiments
continue, hidden in remote, inaccessible North Korea. Much of
the credit for publicizing this evidence belongs to acclaimed
BBC producer Ewa Ewart, who has released two films on the subject.
One, a standard length documentary titled Access
to Evil, was
screened on Capitol Hill in June and shown on BBC World. The
second is a brief, follow-up piece featuring an interview with
a defector scientist. Unfortunately neither film has yet been
made available for US viewers. Yet it is critically important
that Americans understand and appreciate the depth of the horror
uncovered.
The experimentation,
according to defectors, is designed to forecast exactly how
much lethal agent would be required to kill
the entire population of Seoul, South Korea. By current estimates
that would mean the death or incapacitation of approximately
14 million people. Incredibly many people, including those most
concerned, debunk these defector’s testimony. It is common,
they say, for North Korean defectors to ‘exaggerate’ or ‘misstate’ what
they heard or did. In a bizarre twist some South Korean analysts
claim that the poison gas experiment stories are intentionally
leaked by North Korea in order to use them as additional fear-producing
control measures against its own citizens.
When North Korean
defectors report about human beings killed so scientists can
make better chemical and biological weapons,
many listeners close their ears. South Korean officials, to their
shame, brusquely reject testimony by North Korean defectors.
They dismiss the North Koreans as unreliable sources not concerned
with the ‘larger picture’ of improved relationship
between the North and South. If that is the case, then why does
the South Korean intelligence service try to silence both of
the men who provided the poison gas testimony?
One man was a North
Korean research chemist. He defected in 1979. He remains anonymous
in order to protect family members
still in the North. He discusses in intimate detail the layout
of the facilities used to experiment on the prisoners and even
writes out the complicated chemical formulae for manufacture
of the lethal substances. These formulae were reviewed by British
scientists and confirmed to be lethal agents. The other defector,
a former prison camp commander who fled the North more than a
decade later than the scientist, also sketches the death chamber
in chilling similarity to the scientist even though the two have
not met. From the film it is clear that the pain and frustration
level of both men is growing. ‘Why will they not believe
us?’ reads a hand-painted sign in Korean language that
the former camp commander displays publicly on his parked car
as he tried vainly to stimulate public outrage.
There is an unreasonably heavy leavening of denial built into
South Korean analysis. South Korean officials pretend publicly
that for the past several years the relationship with North Korea
has been improving. Representatives from both countries meet
frequently, they say. North Korea has allowed reunions of separated
families, once rare, to occur more commonly. South Korean firms
have established manufacturing facilities in North Korea and
at meetings the North Koreans speak with increasing assurance
of their positive intentions toward their South Korean brothers
and sisters. Just expel the Americans, the North Koreans say,
and all will we well again. We are all Koreans, they reassure.
The incumbent and
immediate past presidents of South Korea both eagerly drank
from the tempting appeasement cup offered by the
North. They were joined at the bar by such worthies as Americans
Jimmy Carter, Madeline Albright and Ramsey Clark. The Clinton
administration, easily distracted from complex foreign affairs
issues, seemed willing to disregard untoward North Korean activities
as long as the pretense could be maintained of ‘regional
stability.’ The shallowness of the North Korean deception
was clear when their secret nuclear program was uncovered. The
horror intensifies as the human poison gas experimentation becomes
public.
Surely there is heavy
irony in the fact that those in South Korea most threatened
by the North’s chemical warfare arsenal
are most blasé about it. It begs the question if they
are not concerned, why should we in the US be? South Korean cynicism
and willingness to sacrifice the welfare of their northern brethren
in order to appease North Korea repels concerned observers. It
is long past time for responsible world leaders to force action
to demand justice for the people of North Korea.
If more justification
for US intervention is needed it arises from the terrible threat
that these chemical and biological weapons
pose to free countries if sold to terrorists. North Korea has
shown contempt for international order by selling outlawed missile
systems and pushing illegal narcotics. It would readily sell
WMD to a well-heeled terrorist buyer for the hard currency it
lacks. No longer is this problem one of ‘if.’ It
has transitioned to ‘when.’ American self defense
and freedom of the oppressed peoples of North Korea provide sufficient
reasons for the US to begin to close the noose around the neck
of the Kim Jong Il regime. CRO
copyright
Gordon Cucullu 2004
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