http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/02/01/n_korea_gassing_prisoners_bbc_says/A program made by Britain's BBC says North Korea is killing political prisoners in experimental gas chambers and testing new chemical weapons on women and children.
Titled ``Access to Evil,'', the program features an official North Korean document that says political prisoners are used to test new chemical weapons.
In a statement, the BBC said the documentary included comments by Kwon Hyuk, a name given to a former military attache at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing and chief of management at Prison Camp 22.
Using a drawing, he describes a gas chamber and the victims he says he saw at the prison in the northeast of the secretive communist state, near the Russian border.
``I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber. The parents, son, and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but 'til the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing,'' he said.