North Korean Poison Cabbage Experiment
Nation Involved: North Korea
Time Period: Between 1986 to 1992
We are all well aware by now of how North Korea treats its people. They will claim to be a paradise but the place is consistently losing people to starvation. The economy is terrible, and freedom is nonexistent. However, the government experiments out of NK can be downright horrific. People have routinely just disappeared as they were captured by armed forces members at random for experimentation. While NK defectors and former prison guards discussed experiments, one person did it better.
Lee Soon-ok. in her book Eyes of the Tailless Animals, discussed several experiments the government did on people. She told the United States Senate once about a story involving poison cabbage. North Korea has been developing chemical weapons for years but they often need test subjects. Once they rounded up 50 perfectly healthy female prisoners and forced them to eat the poison cabbage leaves. Every woman who ate it died within 20 minutes. That is just one of the horror stories.