Thread: North Korea said to be testing anthrax-tipped ballistic missiles

SEOUL--North Korea has begun tests to load anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to an intelligence source here.


The United States also has come to the same conclusion. The White House, in its new National Security Strategy issued Dec. 18, stated that North Korea is pursuing "nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that could threaten our homeland.”


The source in South Korea said Pyongyang is conducting heat and pressure resistance tests to see whether anthrax germs can survive at temperatures of 7,000 degrees or higher, the level an ICBM encounters when it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere.


There was an unconfirmed intelligence report that North Korea has already succeeded in such experiments.
Washington had apparently been aware for some time that North Korea is culturing anthrax.


That, according to a former U.S. government official, is the reason U.S. troops in South Korea have been vaccinated against smallpox and anthrax since around 2004.


In May 2011, the United States and South Korea carried out their first joint map exercise to deal with a terror attack using biological weapons.


The source in Seoul said Pyongyang is likely seeking to develop ICBMs loaded with anthrax because its nuclear-tipped ICBMs have yet to attain full-fledged capability to strike all of the U.S. mainland.

North Korea said to be testing anthrax-tipped ballistic missiles?The Asahi Shimbun

N.K. rejects claim it is developing biological weapons

SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Wednesday rejected U.S. allegations that it is developing biological weapons, saying that the claim is part of Washington's scheme to stifle the regime.


The Trump government's first National Security Strategy released Monday said that the North is pursuing chemical and biological weapons that could also be delivered by missile.


"The DPRK, as a state party to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), maintains its consistent stand to oppose development, manufacture, stockpiling and possession of biological weapons," the North's Institute for American Studies, affiliated with the foreign ministry, was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).


The DPRK is the abbreviation for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The North became a BWC signatory in 1987.


The institute said that the "groundless" claim by U.S. experts and media is nothing but the country's move to isolate Pyongyang and justify its sanctions and pressure on the regime.


"The more the U.S. clings to the anti-DPRK stifling move...,the more hardened the determination of our entire military personnel and people to take revenge will be...," the report said.


Pyongyang is estimated to have 13 types of pathogens such as anthrax and clostridium botulinum that can be used as biological weapons, according to a 2016 report by the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.

N.K. rejects claim it is developing biological weapons

Anthrax-tipped?
Try nuclear-tipped, it scares people more.
How much of this military intelligence on North Korea is just made up?
Still, the U.S is making a fortune selling anti-missile launch systems.

Originally Posted by misskit

North Korea has begun tests to load anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles

At last it is here (as it was here 15 years ago). Now, something more about dogs torturing and/or pulling babies out from incubators...

The DPRK source of the Anthrax spores is that delivered by NATO during the last Korean war.

^ Link?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Now, something more about dogs torturing and/or pulling babies out from incubators..

Yep. They've done orphans and homeless old people, sick soldiers, beaten prisoners... I think you're right, it's time for a cruelty to animals story. Really need to get the western public hating these guys.
Or possibly it will be about repressed homosexuals since gay rights is quite current.
That's my two picks, animals or gays.

Originally Posted by Wilsonandson

Anthrax-tipped?
Try nuclear-tipped, it scares people more.
How much of this military intelligence on North Korea is just made up?
Still, the U.S is making a fortune selling anti-missile launch systems.

or AIDS/Ebola/zombie-tipped ..it all sounds like so much Hollywood screenplay...

Didn't we have an Anthrax scare full security USA lockdown a few months after 9/11 when the US mail started intercepting mail containing anthrax hysteria and paranoia spores of ANTHRAX.
Thats flagged it to security services.
ANTHRAX packages first posted in the USA.
These N. Koreans learn from CIA how to spread anthrax fear.

Banging the war drum NONE STOP.

The Merkins use chemical weapons, and sell them all over the world to dictators and brutal regimes. They are the world leading makers and users of bio-weapons as well. Yet we are supposed to take this bullshit article seriously?

No no. they want a war with China? politicians and journos take a gun and go and fight yourselves and leave everyone else out of it.

Bastards.

These anthrax tipped missiles can they reach Seattle and are they likely to launch at Seattle while bsnub is at home with mommy? If so go NK.

Originally Posted by wasabi

These N. Koreans learn from CIA how to spread anthrax fear.

No...same old fear peddling pre-aggression.

WMD the world has a new Saddam. .

Too many threats and counter measures. Could be just a matter of time before things escalate. BOOM!

A lot of things could go wrong because people keep choosing/following leaders with loads of issues/baggages.

I like the way the Trump haters recon he is the cause of the escalation of NK threats.

Fook orf eh.

It won't kick off though simply because Fatboy realizes his shitty little country will be blown from the face of this Earth and rightly so.

What's going to kill us this week, then.?

Drink ^ Driving.

Originally Posted by misskit

SEOUL--North Korea has begun tests to load anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to an intelligence source here.


The United States also has come to the same conclusion.

i've seen this movie before.

it doesn't end well for anyone.....some much worse than others.

Anthrax.
It's so yesterday.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

These anthrax tipped missiles can they reach Seattle .

As long as it don't land on Mount Saint Helens and fook it up.

I though that place was great eh.

Bit fooked when the Volcano blew its load but shit happens.

Originally Posted by raycarey

i've seen this movie before.

Yep. It just leads to endless dull sequels. We've been here over and over, the only thing that will happen is that politicians will posture and paranoid fools like harry will quote fake stats. Same same no different.

The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred within the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators (Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy), killing 5 people and infecting 17 others. According to the FBI, the ensuing investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement."[1]

A major focus in the early years of the investigation was a bio-weapons expert named Steven Hatfill, who was eventually exonerated. Another suspect, Bruce Edwards Ivins, became a focus of investigation around April 4, 2005. Ivins was a scientist who worked at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. On April 11, 2007, Ivins was put under periodic surveillance and an FBI document stated that "Bruce Edwards Ivins is an extremely sensitive suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks."[2] On July 29, 2008, Ivins committed suicide with an overdose of acetaminophen.[3]

Investigation

A reward for information totalling $2.5 million is being offered by the FBI, U.S. Postal Service and ADVO, Inc.
Authorities traveled to six continents, interviewed over 9,000 people, conducted 67 searches and issued over 6,000 subpoenas. "Hundreds of FBI personnel worked the case at the outset, struggling to discern whether the Sept. 11 al-Qaeda attacks and the anthrax murders were connected before eventually concluding that they were not."[72] In September 2006, there were still 17 FBI agents and 10 postal inspectors assigned to the case, including FBI Special Agent C. Frank Figliuzzi who was the on-scene commander of the evidence recovery efforts.[citation needed]

Anthrax archive destroyed
The FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) both gave permission for Iowa State University to destroy the Iowa anthrax archive, and the archive was destroyed on October 10 and 11, 2001.[73]

The FBI and CDC investigation has been hampered by the destruction of a large collection of anthrax spores collected over more than seven decades and kept in more than 100 vials at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Many scientists claim that the quick destruction of the anthrax spores collection in Iowa eliminated crucial evidence useful for the investigation.

Al-Qaeda and Iraq blamed for attacks
Immediately after the anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressured FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove that they were a second-wave assault by al-Qaeda following the September 11 attacks.

On August 1, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past eighteen years at the government's bio defense labs at Fort Detrick, had apparently committed suicide. Ivins was a top U.S. biodefense researcher who worked at Ft. Detrick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

LOL - most of the worlds weaponised Anthrax is held in the US military's bio-weapons labs. They did it themselves, probably to test it.

There will always be a manufactured boogieman at our door.

Beware.

Kool-Aid is to be savoured.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

LOL - most of the worlds weaponised Anthrax is held in the US military's bio-weapons labs.

Yawn. Link?