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

Evil Dictator has WMD! (maybe...)

[fantomas]

remind me, is this a dupe posting?

What about my flying car?

[Fysiks Wurks]

Popular Mechanics is known for its deep knowlege North Korean technology.

By the way Popular Mechnaics, where is my flying car or personal submarine?

Re:Different uses.

[endianx]

Biological - Not really all that useful. There's too much danger of it infecting your people. Not a problem if you don't care about your people.

Re:Sure...

[ArcherB]

Yet there it is again. More lying claims of WMDs designed to incite the US into waging an unjustified war against (insert country name here).

You'd have a point, except it is China, Japan and S. Korea making the claims. Are they all lying too?