‘Hideous crime aimed at genocide’: North Korea accuses US of anthrax attack

‘North Korea has accused the US of trying to target its people by sending a live anthrax sample to a US base in South Korea. Pyongyang asked the UN to investigate America’s “biological warfare schemes,” while Washington laughed off the allegations.

“The United States not only possesses deadly weapons of mass destruction… but also is attempting to use them in actual warfare against (North Korea),” Pyongyang’s UN Ambassador Ja Song Nam wrote in a letter to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The letter dated June 4 was made public on Friday and included an attached statement from North Korea’s National Defense Commission, blaming the US with a “hideous crime aimed at genocide.”‘

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