| Courtesy of Rantburg’s own Professor badanov, a master class in Communist propaganda. Rantburg U is now in session: |
This is an old libel against the US dating back to the Korean War itself.
The report mentioned is written by a British Sinophile, Joseph Needham under the auspices of the organization International Scientific Commission and funded by a Soviet front group, the World Peace Council.
Courtesy of researcher Jeffrey Kaye, INSURGE now publishes the report in text-searchable format for the first time for the general public, with an exclusive, in-depth analysis of its damning findings and implications.
The report provides compelling evidence of systematic violation of the laws of war against North Korea through the deployment of biological weapons — a critical context that is essential for anyone to understand the dynamics of current regional tensions, and what might be done about them.
It is worth noting that the Soviets overran Harbin in 1945, where the actual experimentation of Japanese Unit 731 took place, and so had access to documents and materials for the germ warfare program the Japanese implemented.
In fact, the Soviets conducted war crime trials against the Japanese directly related to germ warfare in Khabarovsk in 1947.
The Soviets and the Chicoms were on very good terms in 1950 with the Soviet providing pilots for the Nork MiGs, so it is hard to imagine the Communist Koreans and the Chicoms did not have access to those materials as well.
In the report, it is mentioned a number of pathogens they claim the US used, including cholera, which has been a feature of every military conflict from the time of the Scythians up to and including the Yemeni Civil war. Cholera is a direct result of poor sanitation practices relating to contaminated food and water. It is not hard to start a cholera epidemic, but it is 100 percent preventable.
Some time a while back, I posted an historical article relating to Unit 731 to a personal website. You can read it here. You can read the original Russian source here.
Interesting to note the article does not mention American use of germ warfare.
(If you don’t see any embed above, download the full report here).