
In the blood of a defector from the DPRK, antibodies were found to the pathogen of anthrax, and the authorities of South Korea confirmed. Now in Seoul they fear biological weapons. At the end of December, the United States resumed funding for fatal viruses.
"Antibodies to a Siberian ulcer were discovered in the blood of a North Korean soldier who ran across this year," the media source in the administration said. He did not clarify which of the defectors was in question.
The official suggested that a special vaccine was probably made to a soldier, as a result of which he developed immunity to this disease. The media concludes: if there were grounds for vaccination, this may indicate that the DPRK has at its disposal the causative agent of the Siberian ulcer. And he can use it as a biological weapon.
As TASS recalls, earlier the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shumbun claimed that, according to the United States, North Korea conducts biological weapons to fill the warheads of his missiles with dangerous bacilli. In Pyongyang, such statements refuted and warned that they would “avenge” Washington for such accusations.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of South Korea said that the development of a vaccine from a Siberian ulcer takes time and could take up to two years.