Posted on 10/10/2011 12:10:44 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea suspected in poison-needle attacks
Analysts say three incidents targeting South Korea activists seeking to help defectors point to an increasingly belligerent regime willing to use any means to silence critics of Kim Jong Il.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
October 9, 2011, 10:01 p.m.
Reporting from Beijing— On a Sunday evening in August, a middle-aged South Korean pastor collapsed suddenly near a taxi stand in Dandong, a Chinese city on the Yalu River overlooking North Korea.
The 46-year-old, who used the name Patrick Kim, had a discolored complexion, spots on his fingers and limbs, flecks of foam on his mouth. He was dead by the time he reached the hospital.
The pastor was a human rights activist who secretly helped people slip out of North Korea into China. And his family and South Korean diplomats believe he was killed by North Korean agents in retaliation. The weapon of choice: most likely a poisoned needle.
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Did the assassin use an umbrella?
I’d heard the Soviets often did this.
"In one of the most famous cases, in 2000, Kim Dong Shik, a missionary who was a permanent U.S. resident, was grabbed as he was coming out of a restaurant in Yanji, forced into a car and driven to North Korea. His wife, who lives in Skokie, Ill., said he is believed to have died in a North Korean prison.
What has the USA done about this?
Killed a dissident from Bulgaria in a similar way
Middle: a fountain pen designed to fire a poison bullet
Bottom: A flash light which also fires a poison bullet
To fire the poison bullet from a fountain pen, rotate the cover, opening the barrel, and push hard.
Poison bullet is tipped with a blade, which penetrates the body and release neostigmine bromide.
Reportedly, 10mg of neostigmine bromide is enough to cause respiratory failure and heart attack.
Additionally, the effective range of the firing devices is 10 meters.
well I guess North Korea has a “secret finding” that allows them to do this. It’s all the rage for dictatorships these days!
**** had a discolored complexion, spots on his fingers and limbs, flecks of foam on his mouth. ****
Sounds like they need to call in tht great detective WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE!
Still do.
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