Kim Jong-un is testing new warheads loaded with ANTHRAX for his intercontinental ballistic missiles, South Korea warns
(Source dailymail.co.uk)
North Korea is conducting biological weapons experiments to test the possibility of loading anthrax-laden warheads on its intercontinental ballistic missiles, it has been reported.
Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an unidentified person connected to South Korean intelligence, that North Korea was conducting biological weapons experiments to test the possibility of loading anthrax-laden warheads on its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Asahi report said the U.S. government was aware of the tests, which were meant to ascertain whether the anthrax bacteria could survive the high temperatures that occur during warheads re-entry from space. North Korea vehemently denied the allegation and said it will ‘take revenge’ on the US for saying it is developing biological weapons. In a statement issued via the state Korean Central News Agency, the regime said it is party to the Biological Weapons Convention and as such ‘maintains its consistent stand to oppose development, manufacture, stockpiling and possession of biological weapons’.
It went on that the more the US ‘clings’ it its anti North Korea stance ‘the more hardened the determination of our entire military personnel and people to take revenge will be’.
The news that North Korea may have been testing anthrax-laden warheads comes as South Korean President Moon Jae-in is seeking to soothe relations with China and the North before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February.
He suggested on Tuesday he was prepared to postpone military drills with the United States.
Pyongyang sees the joint exercises as preparation for war, while Beijing is still angry about the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system, commonly known as THAAD, by South Korea. China believes the system’s powerful radar can see far into its territory, but Seoul argues it needs it to guard against the threat posed by North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs. Seoul has proposed the potential delay in drills to Washington, which was also discussed during a summit last week between Moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping, an official from the presidential Blue House in Seoul said on Wednesday.