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Shocking footage has emerged purporting to show torture methods used by North Korean security agents while interrogating suspects.

The clip, which surfaced on LiveLeak, shows one agent repeatedly asking a woman if she has had sex with Chinese men.

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Her hands are bound behind her back as she is thrown around, kicked and slapped.

At one point, he grabs her by the hair before ramming her face into a wall where there is a red marking which appears to be blood.


The video shows a North Korea agent interrogating a woman (Picture: LiveLeak)

She is grabbed by her hair and repeatedly asked if she’s had sex with Chinese men (Picture: LiveLeak)

The agent intimidates his suspect by backing her into a wall (Picture: LiveLeak)

She is seen collapsing on the ground (Picture: LiveLeak)

The agent rams her face into the wall where there appears to be a blood mark (Picture: LiveLeak)

The video was uploaded to the website in 2012.

It also shows another agent shoving a stick in between a man’s legs and the chair he is sitting on. He is then slapped across the face and punched in the back of the head.

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He was allegedly accused of ripping up a photo of Kim Jung-il, the former leader of North Korea.



The video has surfaced in the wake of the death of US student Otto Warmbier.

In a separate incident, a man is seen blindfolded (Picture: LiveLeak)

Earlier this month, the 22-year-old was medically evacuated from North Korea after it emerged he had been in a coma since the start of his 15-year sentence for stealing a propaganda poster last year.

Warmbier’s family and officials have pointed blame at the regime’s treatment of him, but North Korea has denied any wrongdoing, calling themselves the ‘biggest victim’.

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A spokesperson said: ‘The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the US in his normal state of health indicators is a mystery to us as well.

‘To make it clear, we are the biggest victim of this incident and there would be no more foolish judgment than to think we do not know how to calculate gains and losses.’

Last week, thousands poured out to pay their respects to Warmbier in Ohio.

The Pendery Center for the Arts in Wyoming was crammed full of friends and family who turned out to pay their respects.

One mourner said: ‘Otto was everybody’s son or brother. We all feel the pain of Otto’s family today and always will.’

Warmbier was medically evacuated from North Korea (Picture: AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

He had suffered brain damage, but experts don’t know what caused it (Picture: AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

The student was flown home in a coma (Picture: AP)