The report published in February 2018 mentioned one episode of the dropping of
plague-infected human fleas on a single small village.
In it mentioned in the report that Pak Yun-Ho, a 26 year old peasant born and
raised in the village was woken up by what he and later others identified as an
American plane that had been circling above the village around 4:00am.
"The enemy plane flew away after circling several times without strafing or
bombing. I couldn’t sleep again after this,” Pak told local investigators then.
"Song Chang-Won and I thought that these numerous fleas floating on the surface
of water must have been dropped by the American plane circling over our village
before dawn. We, therefore, immediately informed the chairman of the Village
People’s Committee of this incident,” Pak told interviewers
In September 1952, the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation
of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China (ISC) issued a
report finding that the US had conducted biological warfare during the Korean
War.
Excerpted from the 1952 "Report of the International Scientific Commission for
the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China,”
page 287.
The ISC linked Pak’s death to the discovery of plague-laden fleas in his
village, adding to the chain of evidence in the case proving US germ warfare.
"Since the beginning of 1952 numerous isolated foci of plague have appeared in
North Korea, always associated with the sudden appearance of numbers of fleas
and with the previous passage of American planes. Seven of these incidents, the
earliest dating from 11th Feb., were reported in SIA/1, and in six of them the
presence of the plague bacteria in the fleas was demonstrated. Document SIA/4
added the statement that after a delivery of fleas to the neighbourhood of An-Ju
on the 18th Feb., fleas which were shown bacteriologically to contain Pasteurella
pestis, a plague epidemic broke out at Bal-Nam-Ri in that district on the 25th.
Out of a population of 600 in the village, 50 went down with plague and 36
died,” the report noted.
The report also included a testimony from a Marine Corps colonel about how the
US conceptualized its germ warfare campaign.
"The general plan for bacteriological warfare in Korea was directed by the
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff in October, 1951…. The basic objective was
at that time to test, under field conditions, the various elements of
bacteriological warfare, and to possibly expand the field tests, at a later
date, into an element of the regular combat operations, depending on the results
obtained and the situation in Korea,” Colonel Franck Schwable, Chief of Staff of
the First Marine Aircraft Wing said in a statement when he was given to Chinese
interrogators after his plane was shot down on July 8, 1952.
Despite constantly claiming that it would prefer a diplomatic solution,
Washington has time and again escalated the crisis by making military threats
against the North.
US President Donald Trump and the White House have kept the shadow of war over
the Korean Peninsula by sending troops and military equipment to the region in
order to hold joint war games with its regional allies South Korea and Japan.
The thaw between the two neighbors, which have been separated by a
heavily-militarized border since the three-year Korean War came to an end in
1953, has been endangered by the Trump administration.
Source:PRESSTV