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To: TobagoJack who wrote (359)	10/18/2002 5:56:01 AM
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"7. N. Korea: U.S. Used Banned Weapons" prop1.org nytimes.com March 10, 1999, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea countered U.S. claims that it possesses biological and chemical weapons by accusing the United States of using the same weapons during the Korean War nearly 50 years ago. North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Li Hyong Chol made the accusations in a letter to the U.N. Security Council president Tuesday as U.S.-North Korea talks continued over Washington's concerns that Pyongyang may be hiding a nuclear weapons project. The ambassador made no reference to the talks at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where Washington is pressing for access to the Kumchang-ni underground site. It believes North Korea may be using it to develop nuclear weapons in violation of a 1994 agreement. Li urged the Security Council to ``make an issue of the United States' use of biological and chemical weapons and large-scale massacres and abuse of the U.N. name (during the Korean War) in order to prevent their recurrence.'' The Korean War was fought under the U.N. flag, with troops provided by member countries and placed under U.S. command. The charge that the United States used germ and chemical warfare first surfaced in 1952, at the height of the Korean War and at a time when North Korea confronted massive outbreaks of cholera and plague. The allegation has been denied by U.S. officials for decades. But it was repeated in a 1989 book by two British journalists, Peter Williams and David Wallace, in a 1990 ceremony staged by Beijing, and in a recently published book called ``The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea'' by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman. The North Koreans cited Endicott and Hagerman's book, published by Indiana University Press, saying they had made efforts ``to crack the secrets of the crimes of U.S. troops and history.'' The book is a heavily documented study that strongly suggests that the United States used biological weapons. They rely on previously undisclosed Chinese documents and interviews. Ambassador Li attached extracts from a 1952 report by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers which concluded that ``the U.S. used the germ and chemical weapons and committed genocide'' during the war. The U.S. government has expressed concern that North Korea may be producing biological and chemical weapons. Li said in the letter that ``the United States is attempting to isolate and stifle North Korea, distorting the image of it by linking it to biological and chemical weapons while driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the extreme.''

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