winning the will of the people hinges on the mass media state p.r. machine it's going to overdrive. but just who is influencing moved. we just don't know yet where the lines will be drawn between what can be said and what conduct that. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for outside the polling the media opinion the listening post based time on al-jazeera. in london area top stories on al-jazeera at least twenty eight people have been killed in coordinated attacks on the military headquarters and the french embassy in the capital of the. witnesses say the last attack is used guns and explosives in the assault sonic eggo has more. plumes of smoke rising above booking

a fast says capital the third major assault on the walker dooku in two year is. this latest attack conducted by islamic extremist fighters according to the book government coordinated and well planned the targets the army headquarters and the french embassy. seven soldiers were killed at that when a tree h.q. several of those wounded eight attackers were killed by the armed forces but it's not known if there will be people involved witnesses said the attackers had arrived in a pickup truck and started shooting off shouting allahu akbar they set fire to the truck and continued to shoot video we did hear that. there were a lot of shots fired damage everywhere two policemen went by and near the army headquarters there was a car with around four to six people they fired the explosion we saw a lot of shots fired a lot of smoke and then people started running picking

a fast says the cation in the sun so hard has made it a target for groups of fighters who operate in the region tens of thousands of people have fled the area because of frequent attacks. last year an al qaeda affiliated group attacked a turkish restaurant in a market killing nineteen people in two thousand and sixteen thirty people died in another assault in a hotel and restaurant in the city the region was once a french colony france now has four thousand troops in the sahara region supporting field forces in five countries that the attack is the latest against the country's secure. force is in a region where violence has increased in recent years so near yankel al-jazeera. the un has released satellite images from last week which show major damage to syria's rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta despite a cease fire at least twenty two civilians have reportedly been killed as

government forces rito more ground from rebel fighters on friday. stock markets around the world are tumbling in response to u.s. president donald trump's plans to impose heavy tariffs on imported steel in alan minium japan's nikkei index finished down two and a half percent on friday european markets were also down with aluminum an automotive companies particularly hard hit the president trump isn't backing down saying the u.s. must protect its workers bangladesh's told me on march withdraw its troops from their shared border an area widely referred to as no man's land where thousands of her hunger is seeking refuge in mars been telling the refugees to leave the area for weeks. britain's prime minister to resign may has warned that access to the e.u. single market will be reduced during a speech here in london outlining her vision for the next stage of bricks and go chez sions focusing on trade may also refuted e.u. accusations that u.k. is trying to cherry pick the most favorable of its rules was dropping the ones they

don't like the fact is that every free trade agreement has varying market access depending on the respective interests of the countries involved if this is cherry picking then every trade arrangement is cherry picking more over with all its neighbors the e.u. has varying levels of access to the single market depending on the obligations those know the neighbors are willing to undertake. it's the final day for italian politicians to win over voters that if this weekend's parliamentary election expected to be one of the most polarizing in years before polls were blacked out two weeks ago polls has predicted a hung parliament with former prime minister silvio berlusconi's alliance of center right groups expected to in much the largest bloc will have more on that story and everything else a bit later on i'll have an update of the headlines in twenty five minutes time of course there is always all website al-jazeera dot com for the latest including all

those coordinated attacks and the capital reports of twenty eight dead and dozens and rewind starts now. i am. hello and welcome to rewind i'm richelle carey. since we launched al jazeera english back in two thousand and six our library of award winning documentaries has

been growing year by year so here are decided to revisit some of the most important of those stories once again today rewinding to two thousand and ten and north korea for the past several months or korea's or to rate in relations with us and the administration of donald trump in particular have threatened to plunge the world into the darkness of a nuclear war earth chris increasing military buildup and testing of missiles now presents an apparent threat to japan and beyond across the pacific as far as the united states president trumps belligerent response it even included the threat of overwhelming military action john yang's rhetoric is equally bellicose and though the regime claims that it needs a nuclear strike capability to deter the threat of u.s. aggression there is history here as well there are north korean still living who have personal experience of american bombing during the korean war nearly seventy years ago back in two thousand and ten people in power travel to north korea to investigate claims that some of those bombs contained not high explosive but

biological weapons insects deliberately infected with deadly diseases it's a claim that the u.s. has always deny but filmmaker tim tate had unique access to this extraordinary story traveling deep inside the country to talk to men who claim to be survivors an attack that america insists never happened has dirty little secrets. almost sixty years ago this peaceful lake was the scene of either a terrible crime. or a cynical hoax. each of these over is either a witness to the crime or a participant in that home. what happened or never happened here in nine. in fifty two is the key to one of the most intractable international disputes today.

the korean war was the first armed confrontation of the cold. in one thousand nine hundred six the united states unilaterally divided korea along the thirty eighth parallel. when in one thousand nine hundred fifty north korean forces backed by the army of communist china crossed the border to unify the country america persuaded the united nations to support military action against what washington saw as the global threat of international compact. the fact that the furthest have invaded korea is a warning that there may be similar act of aggression in other parts of the world. over the next three years an estimated two million soldiers died or were maimed. at least two million civilians were killed or wounded and millions more were made

homeless. but early in one nine hundred fifty two north korea claimed that villages throughout the country were suffering unprecedented outbreaks of bubonic plague anthrax and typhus. is accused the united states of bacteriological warfare dropping germ bombs containing insects shellfish and feathers infected with plague as well as anthrax and color. america angrily denied the claim. to me just released films lay bare the shocking truth behind communist charges of germ warfare in korea and ever since the germ warfare allegations have been dismissed as communist propaganda from an isolationist rogue state that was broadcast by the communist propaganda machine throughout the world. today north korea is the most impenetrable state on the

planet. yet over the past twenty years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young secretive rulers. a healthy boy he joined us. shows how was i not already saigon orders and president of the us so they must. now mari has persuaded p.r. nyang to allow our cameras to follow him through his latest visit it is an unprecedented step foreign journalists are routinely banned from entering north korea we will be working under strict control told where and what we can film and accompanied by government officials at all times. yet we will also be taken deep into the heart of this most hidden country to meet men who claim to have witnessed america's use of germ warfare first hand.

in the center of pyongyang the korean army maintains a vast museum dedicated to documenting its version of the war with america. inside professor morey examines a room given over to what north korea claims to be direct evidence of germ warfare by the united states including specimen jars filled with flies mosquitoes and fleas all allegedly infected with deadly pathogens is it the has what the disease typhoid cause there are pests like decide that heavy disease is injects like a small boy says into the insects and the thoughts inside like disposed and dropped into the evidence is not. according to north korea american pilots dropped

specially adapted bombs these carried no explosives but split open to release the infected insects which would then pass on the diseases to the local population so this is to joan joan long as it is i'd like to speak bombs they put some insects. i mean this thirty four kinds of insects. in a separate projection room mari is given a private screening of what north korea claims is new skill shot in one thousand nine hundred fifty two. the footage appears to show masses of insects crawling on snow covered ground beside the bomb casings a highly unusual phenomenon. and also logic in you is your new.

concerto that doesn't even know any. and all sounds i think i didn't notice and. i don't know. but i could have any data can i want out of the rest of this but humans from which country were these insects were dropped by american pilots or placed here by north korean propagandists. is this evidence of a war crime or is america claims merely crude propaganda you don't eat you want you to meet. him and so they call it common density care or cut out a machine will kill me i wished he was going to show his things that are serving us sec i know. god has let the national. committees and commissions that you know. some of his in a campaign that new sewing room are sending no hoga yet

a quick start their. cars had paid for your discharge and. the. dawn of a pyongyang. at seven am government sirens wake the city summoning its people to begin a new day's work. mori master tucker is leaving pyongyang and heading out into north korea's rural hinterland in search of people who claim to have witnessed and survived germ warfare. but the very nature of this country means that he is completely reliant on the p.r. nyang government to provide his transport and to put forward his interviewees. on

the outskirts of. a village forty five kilometers east of pyongyang two elderly farmers are waiting to meet him you can chan been an toxic loss their fathers during the war both claim that an american plane dropped a germ bomb close to the village. then you go. you know do your. job. to one hundred. percent over you must have call it scoble q will you be gentle need to bully. has another so it's only to bore a hole in the. dunny imbuing them do it they're going to. you now in you.

mind you're making a very probably twenty seven tomorrow night. with your mate during the war captured american pilots made filmed confessions in which they admitted dropping bombs filled with infected insects on north korean villages might never be green. i mean not many but not. only will they didn't see any order in their own human being donna you're wrong medicine or you're. kidding me my thoughts go came in he. saw me. and the kid didn't hear them and now you. to be there when i am or and there could. be. and then when.

i have eyes in the arm of him i'm going to do it isn't. it's here getting a. new human the day here in monotone that ethel you know me as a sunni me. isn't that i'm going to go second guy in one goalie i love it although i never want to put it up to pay back your money who was there and. i guess you might say all of our not knowing and doing god's will. in their filmed confessions the american air force officers expressed apparently genuine remorse for their actions how can i go back and take my family and them alive for all i cannot tell me thank god i am a criminal and i do humanity but when they returned home at the end of the war they

all retracted their confessions. so where does the truth lie for professor mori at least the north korean witnesses are the more convincing there are thousands on all here i. know them in a code of mess and it's gonna. kill me is on study. some of the. night but this is also when you canadians. there were images in stocks terminal connecting them. and you talk to sawgrass and it over to him not in any court. mores mission is taking him deeper into north korea's a rural hinterland and into the areas most heavily bombed during the war.

will be a matter on village in the east of the country he meets jake young stock in one hundred fifty two he was in his final year at school how. can you get to that in all you know going down from hong kong you knew reasonable water. to think and going are you going to do it again gotta get. outta me they've thought of it but now there's a. apologizing to the. camera mounted to the needs of the road in a death they can turn in order that i can not again. in march nine hundred fifty two this peaceful rural area was heavily bombed by the u.s. air force. by then the war ground to a stalemate and. american military chiefs had already dropped thousands of tons of

napalm and were considering a nuclear strike. but the people of mataram village claimed to have been the victims of a very different weapon more young. negro although they were could only call new world he could just had. the label. if you put in their. food they make and keep the current servants he. calmly whom you would in their. room you will have it there so. you can book me can you get to. do anything i can do i will you to get in there. to prolong call. if you get there . and don't already know somebody that.

could be home since you. according to the villages within days many of them fell sick and began to die the symptoms apparently consistent with bubonic plague a disease with no recent history in korea. already killing your own one. also one of the people who. ordered one hundred more normal for parking people from people who didn't know what part of what i thought would hold on i'm not sure how the last long. you're going to have a clue though. i'm going to law. there's all. the time to work through. who want to rule we're not talking about right awful. special car to crush a lot. of what. they we're going just saying thank

you send here yet they still have. music on the playground with us no. no no no no it's not up. so you sure you're going to know that i put you on with us now that i thought that i could have said just sense what he said. but mahdi knows that testimony from north korean citizens will not be enough to convince a skeptical world that the unite. states used germ warfare in korea says your highest are so many germs in your county no choice are ahead and he began to need a creditable door he only saw enough of that all. in fact within months of the allegations being made the north koreans did invite an international commission to visit the country. composed of scientists from france italy sweden the soviet union and brazil and led by a distinguished if left leaning british embryologist it toured the affected areas

interviewed the sick and the dying and carried out a detailed analysis of their infections. the commission's six hundred page report included results of post-mortems on the victims these identified plague typhoid cholera and anthro. it concluded the germ warfare had been deployed exactly is the north koreans claimed but despite its wealth of scientific evidence it was dismissed by america as communist this information or. the. moment excellent doesn't have anything i got changed pushed and as you know i had a choice. no or provide one i send an additional echoing out there on my. whole attitude to what are you doing.

today at the thirty eighth parallel korea remains divided north and south korea remain technically at war every hour of every day their border guards square up to each other across the symbolic dividing line under the constant gaze of american forces. but tucker's search for information about biological warfare in korea will take him far away from this disputed border. harbin northeastern china. in the one nine hundred thirty s. and one nine hundred forty s. japan occupied this part of china. inside these brick buildings a division of the imperial japanese army units seven three one carried out grotesque human experiments as

a result japan became the first country ever to perfect the technology of biological warfare. agents in this. scenario to chen and. they already said early. on the. fear. and i'd only all. color to mean. the trash the japanese experiments exposed to bare living victims insects or shellfish infected with plague anthrax and cholera while weapons experts created unique bombs to deliver these pathogens to their target during world war two japan dropped thousands of these bombs throughout northern china infecting towns and villages with plague cholera anthrax and typhoid see.

such a woman the powerful that they don't unit seven three one was run by japanese scientists and led by general shiro. yet despite clear evidence. that unit seven three one used biological warfare on such an industrial scale after the war now the shira she nor the leaders of his germ weapons team was ever prosecuted for war crimes. it's a deal so when you're. doing. that it's. hard to we article gotten. all. he. says. hurt all the other forces. the techniques and the germs used by unit seven three

one match exactly the details of north korea's claims again there was. show you all the details. yet you. should. just sit here. for professor morey the narrative he has heard amid the ruins of unit seven three one is deeply shocked. as nails or they can overthrow or she should or innocent young innocent japan come later when us in their. own interest their. cry. some your kind us had some this continuous. but i see. no. nonsense and. no more.

who says one hundred so last fall well it's not. a new song or another. how could she escaped justice. did america really use his pioneering technology to wage biological warfare in korea. or would the convincingly detailed confessions of american air force pilots actually extract it under communist pressure. the truth may lie in another country thousands of miles from here. forced to be displaced by their governments in one thousand twenty three mm it was very buggy greek and turkish villagers returned to their roots oh most a century later. and reconnect with the past they thought they'd lost forever.

people should be forced to move from dilemma where they were born which are. the great population exchange at this time on al-jazeera. it really is the international perspective that sets al-jazeera are other news outlets beyond forests and would be getting up on the plates of our originalism is about public service and making a difference in people's lives i'm amazed every day by reporting on al-jazeera and the places that my colleagues go it inspires me to take a different approach to how. you are. a survivor of the genocide people who begged me to kill them when they're suffering but it wouldn't have been hard to who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. will leave him here is due to all

. you know hope of finally learning the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because if i could just find a finger i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london here are the top stories this hour at least twenty eight people have been killed in coordinated attacks on the military headquarters and the french embassy in bikini f.s.s. capital waka dugu dozens of others is said to have been wounded witnesses say the mosque attackers used guns and explosives during the assault the government spokesman says several of the gunmen have been killed. or did you know we did hear that there were lots of shots fired and damages we were to police move by the army headquarters at least four people were inside

a car they fired there was an explosion we saw a lot of shots fired and a lot of smoke and then people started running and our other top stories the u.n. has really satellite images from last week which showed major damage to syria's rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta despite a cease fire at least twenty two civilians are have reportedly been killed as government forces we took more ground from rebel fighters on friday a growing number of countries and economically it is a condemning u.s. president donald trump's plans to impose heavy tariffs on imported steel and alan minium stock markets have tumbled in response to the plan japan's nikkei index finished down two and a half percent on friday whilst european markets also took a dip without a minyan and automotive companies particularly hard hit. british prime minister to reason may is outlined a vision for the next stage of breaks it in a speech here in london she said there were five key tests for negotiations with the european union which included respecting the referendum vote to take back

control of the u.k.'s border laws and money may also refuted e.u. accusations of each case trying to cherry pick the most favorable of its rules while stropping the ones they don't like bangladesh has told me to withdraw its troops from their shared border an area widely referred to as a no man's land where thousands of rango seeking refuge me and my has been telling the refugees to leave the area for weeks and since thursday troop numbers of multiplied. politicians in italy in making their final pitch to win over voters ahead of this weekend's parliamentary election polls is of predicting a hung parliament with former prime minister silvio berlusconi's alliance of center right groups expected to emerge as the largest bloc. why have more on that upcoming election in italy and our other top stories in the news hour that's coming up in twenty five minutes time to join me then rewind now continues.

november two thousand and nine and the president of the united states issues a stern warning to north korea over its nuclear program. north korea behaves in a provocative fashion. then. is willing to return to talks talks for a while and then leaves the talks seeking further concessions and there is never actually any progress on the core issues. while in pyongyang north korean officials insist that talk about nuclear weapons depends on resolution of the fifty eight year old claims that america used biological warfare in the korean war and. the media coming on. your need you saw the money could be will be. good to you don't care it is or who were not will

to win are you. and are none would really. call power in which young call. but while professor morey's inquiries continue in north korea the search for the truth about whether america did use biological weapons there moves halfway around the world. in the u.s. national archives just outside washington d.c. two documents reveal a disturbing relationship between america and she is she the mastermind behind japan's biological warfare program unit seven three one. this show that after the war the american military intelligence shielded the leaders of unit seven three one

from war crimes trials in return. for their expertise in advancing america's then embryonic germ warfare plans information procured will have the greatest value in future development of the u.s. b.w. program so we decide that we're going to trade in this sort of of deal we trade issues non-prosecution for his secrets which he smuggle out. and so the deal is made the trunks of raw data arrive and in a sense we've sold our souls because we need to know that they were able to develop weapons that were capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people these once top secret documents reveal that to speed its program the united states paid ishi and his top germ warfare scientists handsomely for their cooperation they were assisted by direct payments payments in kind food miscellaneous gift items entertainment.

from one nine hundred forty seven behind this security fence at fort dietrich in maryland the u.s. army began work to expand if she's use of insects to deliver bubonic plague anthrax cholera and typhus not very far from edgewood in historic frederick maryland on a biological warfare laboratory. we're working on delivery systems from plains and from nestle's and from other paratus of both fleas but primarily mosquitoes it was a very active program a well funded program a program in which we in fact were testing some of these delivery systems cloud or biological warfare agent can be generated so successful was fort dietrich in perfecting the technology of biological warfare that in the late one nine hundred fifty one as american forces were bogged down in korea the u.s.

joint chiefs of staff issued a top secret order. to begin testing germ weapons on the battlefield large scale field tests should be conducted to determine the effectiveness of specific b.w. agents under operational conditions. or you know the time america was fighting only one warning korea if the order by the joint chiefs of staff was a bait and there was only one battlefield where biological weapons could be tested and and video testimony given as he was dying by a japanese technician who worked to unit seven three one suggests that these trials may have been actively assisted by the original masterminds of biological warfare oprah her told her those are the. oh who. might have been conned the only. one who is this isn't as it was in my lesson.

and he's uncle john was on top for the does our doors are new. to us is his own needs has to be so they're. just too good to cause. according to north korea america began dropping bombs filled with infected insects in january nine hundred fifty two near the end of the korean winter. in support it cites what it claims is contemporary newsreel footage showing scientists examining insects surrounding the remains of bombs on snow covered ground it's like a bomb casing from a standard leaflet bomb that was used to deliver pamphlets and that sort of information we showed this film to entomologist and biological warfare expert professor geoffrey lockwood it's really difficult to say what that is there's there's no scale so i can't tell what the size of those insights are given that

appears to be snow i would guess that the big it could be something like stone flies crawling around on the snout but for professor luck would the problem is not with the insects the bombs or the snow it's with the veracity of the film itself it has to be almost certain that what we're seeing here is a a recreate of what the koreans saw or claim to have seen the possibility of getting a camera film crew to an area where insects at this sort of density have been dispersed in time to actually film that converges on zero so what we're seeing is is what they said they saw and this is probably as close as they can come to that does that necessarily mean that it didn't have. no it doesn't it doesn't mean that it didn't happen it's simply that this is not evidence that it did happen so this is is is i would gather this is their attempt to simulate the sorts of things that they that they saw in one hundred fifty two united states representatives took to

the floor of the united nations it is no exaggeration to say. problem is the group is run now from the world they denounced the north korean evidence as a clumsy fake and a lie. but in doing so they told their own lies undermining the credibility of all american denials of biological warfare some of the denial was just absurd almost laughable when when for instance one particular u.s. official says we did not have any development of insight vector disease research in the united states at that time it's simply an absurd and bald faced deception it's a lie working up to fans is against chemical biological and radiological warfare is the responsibility of the army chemical corps were insect dropped over north korea

and parts of china my sense is that there were incidents that involved. probably quite limited but very very important u.s. testing of biological materials and how will the issue ever be laid to rest once and for all i don't know of the issue will be later i mean how would it be is with the smoking gun with with with different definitive testimony from a u.s. official who was involved in the program and can say yes we did it. the key to the mystery may lie with the american ethel's offices who originally confessed to dropping jumbo loans. very few are still alive today. but we tracked down one of the survivors to this peaceful senior citizens community near houston texas. kenneth enoch is eighty five years old

today he enjoys a comfortable retirement sharing wartime memories with his. wife these are supposed to be bombs over here is that right does it. say and i think this is this man under given food. but from one thousand nine hundred fifty on would left tenant can you see no was another gates on u.s. air force b. twenty six bombing missions over north korea all but one or two most missions we flew at night our favorite target was trains we were going to like trains you know sometimes the one would almost hit the engine. and actually if we drop napalm on the engine you know to try and discourage them i guess it was the you could feel the napalm go off on january the thirteenth nine hundred fifty two after fifty three night bombing missions the next plane was shot down and he bailed out over north korean territory and landed and the parachute spilled and i

found a corner of a rice paddy. and it was snowy there were quite a bit of snow on the ground and i saw a dark part over there on the corner and so i thought well that's a good place for me to be but in less than an hour kenneth enoch was captured by north korean and chinese soldiers it was the morning of this twenty seventh birthday march to be done in a house and i had a place to sit. and they had a guard there and they handed me a piece of paper in english. said. don't worry about it all that we're going to send any anyway you know they don't want to trouble for awhile least but anyway. left and enoch would be held captive in north korea for the next twenty months but what happened to him and what he did during his time as a prisoner of war would prove to be one of the most bitterly disputed pieces of

evidence in the allegations of american biological warfare. that. was. out. there. on april the first nine hundred fifty two kenneth you know committed detailed confession that he had taken part in a series of biological warfare missions. on film and over eight closely written pages left hadn't he not described his biological weapons instructions. or the techniques of dropping germ bombs that have them. separated from the. back of it. and the code word assigned to log them on his return three. or four.

ordinary. in all thirty six american air force officers made written or filmed confessions of dropping germ bombs while in captivity. but when they were sent back home at the end of the war the us department of defense woman them that they could be brought before courts martial to face treason charges subsequently in response to identical questions each officer made a carefully worded retraction just released films lay bare the shocking truth behind communist charges of germ warfare in korea and the so-called confessions of captured u.s. airmen each retraction was filmed by military cameras and handed to television news reel companies with the unit it has been led by minute. but you have been there but the basic so-called germ warfare bombing the other not very good care to make

a statement guarding. it left in and kenneth enoch's retraction was typical. movie we're recording interviews were forced upon me but johnny. said that due to my for him a good american patient which was absolutely. in my confession i would now be branded by the people of the world as in fact a war criminal you describe the method you find it. in your statement. yesterday they use both physical and mental pressure they pushed me around. me attention for a long period. forced me to sit at attention. finally i could see that there was no alternative insanity or death they they threaten me and threaten

me again that i should never leave alive if i didn't cooperate but nearly sixty years later kenny enoch now denies he was ill treated by his captors whatever actions these were very brutal no no no no no. no no no. but here i lay there one time they had me and i did the stay in the same place all the time and i can't recall one particular thing but. maybe maybe they wanted to move somebody else you know how whatever they do so i got transferred to another building another house and home and it was cold. the so my room wasn't quite as big but it was it was all i needed you know. but they came in because it was so cold

they came with. a part full of charcoal you know lay it and they put it in the room to keep me warm the second reason flight left tendency not gay from making his confession was mental pressure also forced to read their propaganda. to make favorable comments on it that is their. their russian publication don't go on carmina as of today once again his story changes try and talk to let you. know i don't want to be there or. that. they had already and. i don't think so for dockery they are kind of books or if you want to know i guess and if you bought one you didn't like you know the story so why then did he make

such a detailed confession today he claims that it was a deliberate deception there was four days for us and then also i could think of he says that he booby trapped the document giving his fellow crew members the names of american cartoon characters there was a fellow named dick tracy dick tracy you know dick tracy over there. richard tracy what. you know and i was going to put a junior in there for doing a trick see you tell you all this this made you. know. what they were there i wanted them to be recognizable so i thought i'd get tracy and junior that would been great except that you know you can't put too many people i want to remember it's worse it would have been a real dandy probably would have had a president from. the difficulty with this story is that many of the dates and

places detailed in kenneth the notes confession have since been confirmed as accurate. the only mention of anything approaching a cartoon character is a passing reference to his gunnery officer sergeant tracy. and then nearly sixty years on kenneth enoch seems to make at least a partial admission that the united states did deploy bacteriological weapons first of all i think you have to understand what what these. key biological warfare or whatever or quark is a pretty big field and it's health what you've got specialists and evil doctors and all of that nonsense but but there's the people who deal and they're don't have to go high and so as for a sweet deal for them you know but they send you send it when you nevertheless he

still denies that he personally played any part in the affair i thought want you to know who are the center of this flight you know i was just a. passenger. official records of bombing raids over north korea held in the u.s. national archives one way to clear up the confusion about kenneth enoch's confession and subsequent retraction would be to examine the flight logs for his missions over korea but they were removed from the files by the us air force on march the twenty third one nine hundred fifty two two months after he was captured and one week before he made his written confession. and after the war the us military imposed a top secret classification on all documents relating to biological warfare in the far east. many of the flight records for korea have never been released. you saw you also know the dangers she. will show. us whether come up

with are going to send in a can it is someone you. wish is used in the. old order in ukraine a lot of fun out there each time and if you use an s.s. trust there definitely needs. more pull not nicholas until now make up and he said he will do that without us no jew or not just look at. washington remembers the korean war very differently to pyongyang. the united states still honors its military men and women as heroes who fought on behalf of the free world to hold back the march of international communism and yet when we

asked both the department of defense and the state department for filmed interviews to discuss the allegations of america's biological warfare program both refused they also declined to respond to ten specific questions about north korea's claims . instead a government spokesperson issued a two line statement describing the allegations as baseless and the disinform ation campaign that refuses to die. one thing is clear. until those allegations are laid to rest. and america's innocence or culpability is established beyond doubt perhaps by an independent inquiry. one of the most enduring cold mysteries. continue to hold its relationship. with the world's most secretive state.

dirty little secrets from two thousand and ten a persuasive story but one that has been consistently denied by every american administration for more than sixty years in north korea though this story contributes to a profound suspicion of the united states and its intentions and southeast asia i'm joined now from u.k. by professor hazel smith the korea expert from london school of oriental and african studies professor thank you so much for joining us so if all of this happened with you know deadly insects biological weapons if all this happened it was more than sixty years ago but having said that is this still a very real live issue for north koreans now the truth is about the korean war is that it was a very dirty war on all sides there atrocities by the north koreans by the south koreans there were many many people killed and many many orphans and many maimed

so the whole of the war still remains controversial particularly for north koreans and for south koreans because they've still got family members that have split since not fifty three once when the war ended there's been no communication between the two sides so the issues about alleged germ warfare a part and parcel of the discourse which takes place in north korea this is a controversial topic at the time in the one nine hundred fifty s. remains controversial now this story no smoking gun evidence this to took place but it forms part of the official discourse it doesn't however form part of the do. today discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for two years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and . clinics and. talked to lots and lots of different people it was never raised once as an issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were race of course

things like the fact that there were so many men killed in the one nine hundred fifty s. in the war that there were disproportionate amounts of women left alive today for a brief moment there was a slight bit of deescalation but obviously the tension is still there how do you see things playing out on the korean peninsula well there are different objectives the north koreans want to preserve regime security which for them means both territorial defense proper vention of milledge intervention from the outside but also security for the current government and for those in power it saw what happened in iraq to saddam hussein and in libya to gadhafi and their argument is that if those countries had maintained nuclear weapons program or similar sorts of programs they wouldn't have been vulnerable to invasion from the

united states and others although what's encouraging is with south korea north korea after all the heart of the matter on the korean peninsula at least talking to each other now in two thousand and eighty in a way that they haven't been for two or three years there are some diplomatic channels which will at least at this stage allow for talks on more sensitive issues but there is a long long way to go before we can see an end to these conflicts thank you professor hazel's method joining us and that is it from us to check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from this series irish i'll carry thank you for joining us so you'd answer.

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inland again but it's still substantial right as you can see now we've got some rain much lighter around new zealand this is sporadic in the way the cloud is broken you can see that but it's coming on the winds more as parallel to the coast so if you're on the west coast the south on johnson is going to be a disappointing day overcast with outbreaks of rain oakland looks fine and both crushed and oakland ought to be enjoying bright if not sunny with say here on the west coast not so good now the wind is much lighter on sunday the cloud is much center sunday again looks are more bright than dull day. too often on the streets. are victims but a new force is at play. female police officers are combative sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is

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