PYEONGTAEK, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Pyeongtaek announced that it will be developing a manual outlining how to deal with the U.S. army’s imports of anthrax as the American military is moving its base to Pyeongtaek in 2016. Gong Jae-gwang, the mayor of Pyeongtaek, announced that the city will make an ‘anthrax manual’ [...]
“The on-site visit is expected to defuse public worries by having firsthand verification on whether actions have been taken properly on the concerned facility and those who have been exposed in accordance with the safety guidelines at home and abroad throughout the first shipment and to the disposal.” – South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense SEOUL, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States agreed Wednesday to seek a “comprehensive and systematic” measure to prevent the recurrence of a live anthrax shipment to the peninsula, the Foreign Ministry said. The two sides also agreed to continue joint efforts to resolve disputes over the cleaning of polluted American [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A bio-pesticides research center that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited last month is believed to be capable of producing military-sized batches of biological weapons, including anthrax, a U.S. expert said Thursday. Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), said she [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the United States military has inadvertently sent live samples of anthrax to a US airbase in Osan, Korea and nine U.S states, Korean SNS users are expressing their worries and asking how something like this could happen. For one year, no one had any idea that the samples [...]