Everyone should go out and try to watch a couple of documentaries on North Korea, it’s one of those things that people should do for their own personal education. Liberals too.
I say liberals too despite the fact that no amount of education will cure the main problem with them, but more or less so they have a rough idea of why President Trump is deciding not to treat Little Kim with kid gloves like Obama did.
People in North Korea, the average citizen and not the few elites with electricity and working toilets, have it rougher than anything they could imagine. Their leader takes any kind of aid that he can get and spends it on himself.
Added to that, he then threatens every country that doesn’t want to give up their lunch money for lack of a better term with a nuclear attack.
Just what those desperate poor starving people from North Korea needed.
It’s now being reported by several news agencies that multiple North Korean defectors who lived near and around the North’s main nuclear test site have shown symptoms of possible radiation exposure. Although doctors have said it is hard to determine whether they were affected by nuclear tests or if the radiation is coming from a leak or somewhere else.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry announced the results of the 54-day medical check-up quarantine and tests for radiation exposure on over 30 former residents of Kilju County in the province of Hamgyongbukdo. This is the same area which is home to the Pyunggyeri Nuclear Test Site and where all six of North Korea’s nuclear tests were conducted so the findings sadly don’t come as much of a surprise. All defectors who were screened had left the county after the North’s first nuclear test in 2006 and arrived in the South before the fourth test in January of 2016.
Tragically Nearly two dozen recent defectors told South Korean media in November that Kilju County was turning into a “wasteland” where babies were reportedly being born with birth defects. But we all know very well Kim Jong Un doesn’t care one bit.
Via Fox News: North Korea’s other weapons: Expert warns nukes aren’t biggest concern
Fears North Korea is developing a biological weapons program
North Korea’s nuclear program has long triggered condemnation – including the U.N. Security Council’s recent decision to apply some of the toughest sanctions in history – but is something far more lethal lurking in the Hermit Kingdom’s arsenal?
“They have a large stockpile of chemical weapons, but the one that gets the least attention, and that I worry most about, is their biological weapons program,” said Andrew Weber, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Chemical and Biological Defense Programs from 2009-2014.
When it comes to biological weapons, Weber said, just a tiny amount can bring incredibly lethal results. “Ounces or pounds would be enough. You can have millions of lethal doses of anthrax in a several-pound quantity… With smallpox, maybe just a few grams.”
One of the biggest concerns when it comes to chemical or biological warfare – a concern that Weber and the White House seem to share – is the fact that these incredibly lethal attacks can easily be “cloaked in deniability,” and difficult to trace back to the perpetrator. Weber pointed out that “it takes just one or two people to covertly deliver a strategic biological weapons attack.”
North Korea has been accused of using chemical weapons in an apparent assassination earlier this year, one that unfolded beyond its borders. Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed with the use of the nerve agent VX in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport last February 13.
Adding to the difficulty in tracking the use of weapons like these, Weber said, is the fact that it’s usually too late when people realize they’ve been exposed. Weber added that “to release anthrax into the atmosphere, you’d likely go undetected and it would be a week or so before people start displaying symptoms.”
During the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S., Weber noted that people were mailed envelopes filled with the deadly substance – along with a letter telling them that they had been infected, and should seek medical attention. Weber said those warning letters are what allowed the government to quickly distribute antibiotics to thousands of Americans, likely saving lives in the process. Without them, the outcome could have been very different.
