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Earlier this month, as it happens, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) aired a shocking report on North Korea’s sprawling network of concentration camps, modeled on the Soviet Gulag, which holds an estimated 200,000 or more inmates. The documentary’s centerpiece was an interview with Kwon Hyok, a former North Korean intelligence agent who defected to the South in 1999. He was once the head of security at Prison Camp 22—where, he now alleges, chemical weapons were tested on prisoners. “I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating...
...North Korean prisoner told the BBC that she’d once been commanded to poison dozens of fellow inmates. “An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners,” Sun-ok Lee claimed. “One of the guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to give it to the 50 women.” She went on: “All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes...
...pregnant and alone when Callum is hanged for terrorism. In Blackman's sequel, Knife Edge (Doubleday; 364 pages), published this month, things take a turn for the worse. What really caught the imagination of young readers in Noughts and Crosses - and made Blackman the only black writer in the BBC's recent poll of Britain's 100 favorite books - was a simple, profoundly disconcerting, plot twist. In Sephy and Callum's world, it's the black people, (known as crosses), who have the power, money and education, while whites (the noughts) have menial jobs, few rights and even fewer opportunities...
Sources: AP; BBC; Sydney Morning Herald; San Francisco Examiner; New York Times; Reuters...
...have been brought up to believe that you cannot choose your own referee and that the referee's decision is final." GAVYN DAVIES, BBC board chairman, who resigned following the release of a report criticizing the BBC for alleging that the Blair government had "sexed up" its intelligence on Iraqi weapons...