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Subject US officials fear North Korea building biological weapons amid signs of microbe production

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Original Message US officials have warned that North Korea’s suspected biological weapons programme poses a growing threat amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Analysts believe that the pariah regime is moving steadily towards acquiring essential machinery that could potentially be used for advanced bioweapons, from factories that can produce microbes by the tonne.. “That the North Koreans have [biological] agents is known, by various means,” one senior US official told The Post on condition of anonymity.

“The lingering question is, why have they acquired the materials and developed the science, but not yet produced weapons?” ut he admitted that spy agencies might not know immediately if they did as new capabilities are embedded within civilian factories which the regime claims are making agricultural and pharmaceutical products. “If it started tomorrow we might not know it,” the official said.

US and South Korean intelligence agencies believe Pyongyang has experimented with bacterial strains including microbes that cause anthrax, cholera and plague.

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

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