The Simon Wiesenthal Center is interviewing people who allegedly witnessed gassings by the North Korean regime. A statement released Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the group’s associate dean, had joined two others in 10 hours of interviews with witnesses who described the gassing of prisoners in North Korea from the 1970s through 2002.
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