Kim Jong-un’s ‘secret BIOWEAPONS plan’: North Korean dictator ‘building factories for producing microbes and labs for genetic modification’
Dictator ‘steadily acquiring new machinery needed for bio-weapons production’
He is said to have sent experts around world to secure degrees in microbiology
It comes as US, South Korea and Japan started exercises to track North Korea rockets
By JULIAN ROBINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
11 December 2017
Kim Jong-un may be attempting to make an arsenal of bioweapons after stepping up moves to build factories and laboratories, it has been claimed.
The North Korean dictator is steadily acquiring new machinery that can be used to churn out deadly microbes by the tonne, according to US and Asian intelligence officials.
It comes ten years after a report sent to Congress warned secret work was underway to produce a biological weapon – but that the hermit state lacked the technical know-how to complete the programme.
But according to the Washington Post, Kim Jong-un has sent experts around the world to secure degrees in microbiology.
Analysts in America are concerned that the research could now spiral into full-scale production of dangerous pathogens that can be loaded into bioweaponary.
The Post quotes a senior US official as saying: ‘That the North Koreans have [biological] agents is known, by various means. The lingering question is, why have they acquired the materials and developed the science, but not yet produced weapons?
‘If it started tomorrow we might not know it, unless we’re lucky enough to have an informant who happens to be in just the right place.’
Biological weapons, also known as germ weapons, use any form of disease-causing microbes to attack or kill humans, animals or plants.
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