Report Warns of North Korea’s Biological Weapons Program

Report Warns of North Korea’s Biological Weapons Program
South Koreans run out of a building during a civil defence drill in Seoul on August 22, 2012. Researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs have published a report about North Korea’s biological weapons program that calls for better preparations. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/GettyImages
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North Korea’s drive to create biological pesticides and fertilizers may be a cover for a biological weapons program, warn researchers at Harvard.
While North Korea basks in international horror over its ongoing nuclear program and its threats to wipe out Japan and the United States, the regime denies it has any biological weapons program to speak of.
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