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North Korea Begins Tests to Load Anthrax Onto ICBMs, Report Says
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Andy Sharp
December 20, 2017, 9:23 AM GMT+8
North Korea Crisis Continues to Escalate
North Korea has begun tests to load anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles, Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported Tuesday, citing an unidentified person connected to South Korea’s intelligence services.
The report said the testing involves ensuring the anthrax survives the immense temperatures generated during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. North Korea has a stockpile of between 2,500 tons to 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, and is capable of producing biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox, South Korea has previously said.
The Asahi report comes a day after the White House published its National Security Strategy, a document that said Pyongyang is "pursuing chemical and biological weapons which could also be delivered by missile."
"North Korea -- a country that starves its own people -- has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could threaten our homeland," the report said.
North Korea claimed it had completed its nuclear force after it fired a new Hwasong-15 ICBM in late November. South Korea assessed the missile -- North Korea’s largest yet -- could potentially fly 13,000 kilometers (about 8,000 miles) and reach Washington, though additional analysis was needed to determine whether it was capable of re-entry.
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North Korea conducting tests to load anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles
A commemorative stamp featuring an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un celebrating the launch of a Hwasong-14 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is displayed at a shop in central Pyongyang.PHOTO: AFP
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TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) - North Korea has begun tests to load anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported on Tuesday (Dec 19), citing an unidentified person connected to South Korea's intelligence services.
The report said the testing involves ensuring the anthrax survives the immense temperatures generated during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
North Korea has a stockpile of between 2,500 tonnes to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, and is capable of producing biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox, South Korea has previously said.
The Asahi report comes a day after the White House published its National Security Strategy, a document that said Pyongyang is "pursuing chemical and biological weapons which could also be delivered by missile".
"North Korea - a country that starves its own people - has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could threaten our homeland," the report said.
North Korea claimed it had completed its nuclear force after it fired a new Hwasong-15 ICBM in late November.
South Korea assessed the missile - North Korea's largest yet - could potentially fly 13,000 kilometres and reach Washington, though additional analysis was needed to determine whether it was capable of re-entry.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (Picture: Getty)
North Korea has been loading anthrax onto its new intercontinental ballistic missiles, South Korean intelligence services have revealed.
Military scientists in North Korea have been trying to ensure the anthrax would survive the high temperatures generated when the missiles re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Shoot-out at petrol station caught on videoJapan’s Asahi newspaper reported South Korean intelligence sources were concerned the North Korea were finding new ways to use their estimated 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons.
North Korean state television reported last month the launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Hwasong 15, which is a nuclear-capable weapon which could fly as far as America.
The country has been capable of producing biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox for decades after orders from North Korea’s first leader Kim Il Sung in the 1960s.
Kim Jong-un giving an order to test-fire the newly developed inter-continental ballistic missile Hwasong-15 (Picture: NTA)
Rebecca Hersman, a former Defense Department deputy assistant secretary for countering weapons of mass destruction, told the Washington Post: ‘North Korea is bad enough when you’re talking about their nuclear and missiles program. But I think we ignore their chemical and biological programs truly at our own peril.’
North Korean defectors have claimed in recent years the regime can also produce Variola major (smallpox), Francisella tularensis (rabbit fever), and Bunyaviridae Hantavirus (Korean hemorrhagic fever).
This week USA’s National Security Strategy confirmed Pyongyang was ‘pursuing chemical and biological weapons which could also be delivered by missile.’
The report said: ‘North Korea — a country that starves its own people — has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could threaten our homeland.’
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