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To: RealMuLan who wrote (36796)	7/31/2003 4:00:40 PM
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China claims US used bio-weapons in Korean War BEIJING: Chinese state media Wednesday repeated claims that US forces used bacteriological weapons to lethal effect during the Korean War, launching attacks on not only Korea proper, but also northeast China. The accusations — which are dismissed by many western historians — were carried in the China Youth Daily in an article that the paper said commemorated “those who died in the bacteriological attacks.” “Iraq’s ‘possession of weapons of mass destruction’ was the excuse the United States used to unleash the second Iraq war,” the paper said on its website. “But till this day they have found no proof, whereas it is obvious that the United States ... used bacteriological weapons during the Korean War.” To back up its claim, the paper quoted several foreign observers, including former members of an international investigation team that visited North Korea and northeastern China in 1952. Accusations that US forces dropped germ bombs over North Korea were raised by China and the former Soviet Union early in the 1950-53 conflict. They still form part of the official Chinese view of the war, meriting an entire section at the Beijing military museum’s permanent exhibition about the Korean War. However, the topic has been the subject of heated argument among western academics. Twelve Soviet-era documents were uncovered in Moscow in 1998, allegedly supporting the position that the bacteriological attacks were a deliberate communist fabrication aimed at discrediting the US war effort. China suffered 900,000 casualties — killed and wounded — when it sent troops to Korea in late 1950 to protect the northern regime from imminent collapse under the weight of a US-led counterattack. —AFP dailytimes.com.pk