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.' "

Comments

Hans Brix to the rescue

[DrugCheese]

We will be very, very angry with you North Korea and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.

Re:Hans Brix to the rescue

[Citizen of Earth]

"My hands were shaking after reading this letter," said Kofi Anan. "I mean, this is a REALLY harsh letter. I think North Korea will disarm by the end of the year. My only concern is that it is too strong. We only want North Korea to disarm. This letter might cause them to surrender their entire country to France. The letter is really that strongly worded. I'm shaking even now just thinking about it." -- Jerhad!com (2006-10-13)

Popular Mechanics?

[LibertarianWackJob]

So could we replace the CIA with the staff from Popular Mechanics?

Evil Dictator has WMD! (maybe...)

[fantomas]

remind me, is this a dupe posting?

Re:What do you need bio for?

[xQx]

Well, to quote the late Bill Hicks...

George Bush: "We know they've got weapons of mass destruction"
Public: "How do you know?"
George: "Uhh... we looked at the reciept..."

Re:Hmmmm... Where's Bush on All This?

[Anonymous Coward]

Known as the "Zapp Brannigan Manuever"

Re:war is never going away

[spickus]

"more IUDs and bomb belts."

That does sound nasty, where exactly are they sticking those IUDS ?

Nuke The Motherfuckers into Oblivion

[littlewink]

There's no alternative. We must hit North Korea with a surprise nuclear attack. Many nukes will be required to take out all chemical and biological facilities and sterilise them.

It will be a short and simple war, unlike Iraq. We won't send a single person into combat. But 100-200 nuclear MIRVs will be sent on the first strike.

The longer we wait the more dangerous NK becomes. They have probably already moved CBW to U.S. and European cities.

Time to strike.

Re:What do you need bio for?

[Unlucke]

If that happens, imagine the 'Always Low Prices!' at Walmart. They'd skyrocket from dirt cheap to just plain cheap.

Re:What do you need bio for?

[antonyb]

...or get rid of all of Courtney Cox's wrinkles.

ant.

Re:Hans Blix to the rescue

[Anonymous Coward]

What does Hans Blix have to do with why we went to Iraq? We went there to spread democracy, not look for weapons of mass destruction. Anything else is liberal propaganda.

Re:What do you need bio for?

[mvdwege]

Now try spreading 2lbs. of botulin toxin across the entire planet.

Hmmm. You seem to have come up with a new concept: homeopathic bioweapons. Congratulations!

Mart