A new U.S. State Department report argues that Russia, Iran, North Korea and Syria all continue to maintain biological weapons programs. The authors also discuss ongoing efforts in Cuba and China but stop short of calling them biological weapons programs.
Over the past year harrowing first-hand testimonies from North Korean defectors have detailed execution and torture, and now chilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret: gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings.
Senior U.S. military officials and independent experts are concerned North Korea would use chemical or biological weapons tactically to devastate U.S. and South Korean forces in the event of war, potentially producing a dilemma of U.S. retreat or nuclear retaliation.
A U.S. intelligence review has concluded that four nations -- including Iraq and North Korea -- possess covert stocks of the smallpox pathogen.