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North Korea's Secret Biochemical Arsenal

mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has an in-depth report on North Korea's biological and chemical weapons stock, which has been developed in secret and has gone largely unnoticed amidst the country's nuke threat. From the article: 'North Korea's Chemical and Bioweapons (CBW) program appears to be modeled on that of the former Soviet Union, which covertly constructed a massive biological weapons infrastructure within the shell of a civilian research organization called Biopreparat. Inside Biopreparat, the Soviets developed deadly agents that included weaponized forms of anthrax and pneumonic plague. Intelligence reports from the United States and South Korea list anthrax, smallpox, pneumonic plague, cholera and botulism toxins as leading components of North Korea's bioweapons projects.' "

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  1. Re:Sure... by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You apparently haven't seen the list of countries that thought Iraq had WMD, too. The looney left isn't impressed by that; GWB is the cause of all the world's problems.

  2. Re:Hmmmm... Where's Bush on All This? by toddhisattva · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    If you bashed Bush for not stopping 9-11, then you really can't honestly bash him for attacking Iraq.
    You're expecting honesty from Bush bashers?

    If Bush were to cure cancer tomorrow, the bashers would complain he did it for Halliburton, or his daddy, or his daddy's Halliburton.