Posted on 10/05/2009 11:41:00 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
North Korea’s armed forces are capable of carrying out 13 kinds of viral and bacterial attack, the South Korean Government said yesterday in one of the most detailed assessments of the dictatorship’s biological weapons arsenal.
In a submission to the South Korean National Assembly, the Defence Minister also said that the North had 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, believed to include mustard gas, phosgene and sarin. Among its biological agents are cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, typhoid fever and dysentery.
Despite the alarming assessment, Kim Tae Young also said that his country’s armed forces had the capacity pre-emptively to destroy about a hundred sites connected to the North’s nuclear programme in the event of an imminent attack.
“We have a complete list of them,” Mr Kim said, adding that the North Korean military may not have achieved the technological breakthroughs necessary to attach nuclear warheads to a missile delivery system or launch them from a bomber.
“It is not clear whether North Korea has nuclear arms,” he said. “But we have sufficient information on the locations where items related to the nuclear programme are stored and where the delivery means are placed.”
It is known that North Korea’s 1.2 million-man armed forces possess significant chemical and biological weapons, but the details announced yesterday emphasise the hardline approach to its neighbour taken by the South Korean Government under the President, Lee Myung Bak.
Yesterday’s statements came as North Korea was pressed from other quarters, including China, whose Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, is in Pyongyang on a rare three-day visit.
Mr Wen had talks with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, which doubtless included ways of persuading the North to return to the multilateral disarmament talks that it renounced this year.
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After a night of Chinese food so can I!
Just let a random Norkie citizen loose somewhere in the Western world. That’ll do it.
At least they don’t have any beauty salon stuff.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/10/113_52961.html
10-05-2009 21:51
“N. Korea Has 13 Types of Biological Weapons:
By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter
SNIPPET: “North Korea is believed to possess 13 types of viruses and germs that it can readily use in the event of a conflict, a ruling party lawmaker said Monday, citing a defense ministry report.
The North is believed to be one of the world’s largest possessors of chemical and biological weapons.
South Korea suspects the communist neighbor has up to 5,000 tons of chemical agents.
During a National Assembly audit of the Ministry of National Defense, Rep. Kim Ock-lee of the Grand National Party said diseases that could be caused by North Korean biological weapons include cholera, pest, yellow fever, smallpox, eruptive typhus, typhoid fever and dysentery.”
Wow - sucks to be South Korea.
Wonder why they think of “cowboy diplomacy” now that they’re getting a dose of wimpy French homosexual diplomacy. :)
I do not like germ warfare. Its too slow.Unless it is a genetically engineered bio weapon. You need something quick like a nuclear weapon.
During the Cold War, the Russians had 100 missiles that had biological warheads. These missiles contained genetically engineered viruses like a mix of smallpox and Ebola.After they finished nuking the cities they would seed fire these warheads on survivors.
Choose any three, and you get fortune cookie!
Heck, that would be an improvement.
Were N. Korea to launch missiles with Biological weapons or gas would the U.S. use nukes on the North?
Or would obammy just sit and let it happen?
I mean we only have 43,000 soldiers there, he’d probably think they were expendable.
They have smallpox? How did that happen? I thought the only supply of smallpox in the world was locked in a vault at the CDC in Atlanta? Was there some security breach or was there some Russian reserve they could have gotten it from?
You can get smallpox from any medical company.
Any medical school has access to smallpox and other viruses
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