Global & Disaster Medicine

North Korea: “advanced, underestimated and highly lethal” bioweapons program.

NYT

“…..But today, analysts say, the gene revolution could be making germ weapons more attractive. They see the possibility of designer pathogens that spread faster, infect more people, resist treatment, and offer better targeting and containment. If so, North Korea may be in the forefront.

South Korean military white papers have identified at least ten facilities in the North that could be involved in the research and production of more than a dozen biological agents, including those that cause the plague and hemorrhagic fevers…..”

North Korea Biological Weapons Program


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