Behind the storylines of trains and nukes, a reminder of what we are dealing with

They call it “the Killing Compound” – the area of Camp 22 in North Korea’s largest concentration camp.

Hidden away in the mountains in a remote northeastern corner of North Korea, close to its borders with Russia and China, Camp 22 has been purpose-built for the regime’s scientists to have an unlimited number of prisoners on which to experiment.

Thousands of men, women and children are trucked to the nearby town of Haengyong. There they wait and, just as Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele did at Auschwitz, the North Korean physicians single out those who will die in gas chambers, or in biological tests, or face death in the human dissection rooms.

Those not selected to go to the Killing Compound at once will be kept in other compounds, surviving on minimum rations, to replace those who have died from inhuman experiments.

They are all branded as enemies of the state, “political victims” who have dared to speak out against President Kim Jong Il, the “Dear Leader” of North Korea.

Their “offenses” may have been to allow a portrait of Kim to get dusty – every home must display one. Or not having given the mandatory bow when passing his thousands of posters that line every street.

Now, as the trial of Saddam Hussein draws to its inevitable close in Baghdad, Western intelligence services are building up their files that will enable Kim and senior members of his regime to be indicted for war crimes.

Now you don’t need to look for that non-existant login to comment on this page. It only took me 3 months to figure out that my opinion aren’t actually rendering people speechless.

If you are curious about someone who’s not impressed about Seoul Train, check out this in The Marmot’s comments section. And to get your blood flowing, the same person argues that North Korea refugees are indeed economic migrants.

Not that I agree with such positions, but it’s always good to read opposing views.