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North Korea is ‘mass producing biological weapons’ and could unleash smallpox, cholera, [tr]
UK Sun ^ | October 23, 2017 | Patrick Knox

Posted on 10/23/2017 7:43:00 AM PDT by C19fan

Under the cover of a farm lab, it is claimed North Korean chemists could be weaponising some the world’s deadliest diseases such as smallpox, Black Death and cholera which could lay waste to millions of people if an epidemic was sparked. Radio Free Asia cited a report released by Belfer Centre of Harvard University’s Kennedy School, which says the rogue state already has biological weapons.

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KEYWORDS: korea
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Where did the Norks get smallpox? After smallpox was wiped out only the US and Russia have sample of the smallpox virus. Considering how virulent and spreadable smallpox is and the discontinuation of vaccination that is a nightmare scenario.
1 posted on 10/23/2017 7:43:01 AM PDT by C19fan
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"Whitey hardest hit"

2 posted on 10/23/2017 7:45:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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NK has a death wish.


3 posted on 10/23/2017 7:47:53 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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Back around 2013, some folks found some leftover samples in a South African lab, after everyone felt that all samples were disposed of. I would make a guess that you can find hundreds of labs around the world that have samples packed away. Some aren’t aware of it...some probably have rogue scientists who just kept it for a private project.

I would suggest this...if any episode occurs and it leads back to North Korea...there probably will be a level of destruction laid down that would make the images of Berlin in 1945 look minor in detail. Even the Chinese have to be looking at this suggestion and be fairly worried about the nutcase in charge.


4 posted on 10/23/2017 7:49:25 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Even the Chinese realize germs do not respect borders.


5 posted on 10/23/2017 7:51:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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“...only the US and Russia have sample of the smallpox virus.”

Just find graves of small pox victims and go to work. This is especially scary since we’ve stopped vaccinating for it, although we supposedly have enough vaccine for the US population (anti-vaxxers to the end of the line!).


6 posted on 10/23/2017 7:51:28 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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We can retaliate with nuclear weapons on such an attack since we signed away our chemical and biological weapons. That’s the law of warfare.


7 posted on 10/23/2017 7:51:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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If the unleash smallpox on an unvaccinated population it won’t matter. The chaos created will do far more harm than a nuke. Hospitals and morgues will be overwhelmed and we will be so busy trying to hold society together it won’t really matter what happens to the norks. They will likel die in the epidemic they unleash along with the rest of us


8 posted on 10/23/2017 7:51:48 AM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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I’ve read that people in the arctic who died of smallpox and were buried, decades later, upon re-examining their graves live smallpox virus was found. Same for flu of 1918.


9 posted on 10/23/2017 7:53:44 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone tries to burn you out, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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Imagine the panic if smallpox gets unleashed. We might have the doses but distribution might be a nightmare.


10 posted on 10/23/2017 7:54:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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Maybe this why the Chinese are getting tough on KJU.


11 posted on 10/23/2017 7:54:27 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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Niger?

http://www.informationng.com/2017/10/details-emerge-monkeypox-epidemic.html


12 posted on 10/23/2017 7:54:34 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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And the lefties have the gall to advertise “Impeach Trump” ads on YouTube with one of their attack points being he has access to the nuclear button. Please. This coming from the people who allowed nuclear capabilities to go to a crazed communist dictator in North Korea and to dangerous Islamists in Iran. The lefties keep burying themselves with their utter stupidity.


13 posted on 10/23/2017 7:55:59 AM PDT by dowcaet
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Climate change is more important than a smallpox outbreak, don’t worry.


14 posted on 10/23/2017 7:56:07 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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illegals already to that for us too 👎
15 posted on 10/23/2017 7:57:02 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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Smallpox would be problematic.

Cholera and the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) are both bacterial, and thus treatable with antibiotics, IIRC. Again, IIRC, Bubonic Plague still shows up occasionally in the western US.

So - Some truth and a lot of scare tactics in this article.

16 posted on 10/23/2017 7:59:17 AM PDT by wbill
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China and Russia have to realize that North Korea is a malignant tumor that could damage either of them by accident as badly as the damage they intend for us, Japan and South Korea. Instead they enable and support fat boy.


17 posted on 10/23/2017 7:59:49 AM PDT by JimSEA
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They “could be.” Sure. And Rocket Man could be a space alien, too, I guess.

This seems like nothing more than pointless fearmongering, to me - which makes me wonder who’s behind it, and why. Is it the McCain / Graham types, who seem to have some kind of sick lust for war?


18 posted on 10/23/2017 8:00:01 AM PDT by Pravious
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Reminds me of Saddam’s mobile weapons labs


19 posted on 10/23/2017 8:07:37 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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The flu thing for 1918...involved them finding individuals in arctic regions who were buried and the research teams were a bit shocked to find that the frozen conditions kept the flu bugs still in a dangerous state. There’s a great book by John M Barry on the flu topic (The Great Influenza). I would highly recommend the book to understand the 1918 episode and what happened.


20 posted on 10/23/2017 8:09:11 AM PDT by pepsionice
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