hello i'm. with the headlines on al-jazeera the arabian atomic agency says the country will exceed its uranium stockpile limit set by the 2015 year clear deal in 10 days iran started hearing to some elements of the agreement after the u.s. withdrew last year. the countdown has started in 10 days time on june 27th we will exceed the 300 kilogram limit of been reached your radio allowed under the nuclear deal after dark we will continue to increase the speed of production drastically dosage of ari has more from tehran. it rainin president has on your honey has been meeting with the french ambassador here in the capital where he said that time is running out for europe to show that it's still

committed to the 2015 nuclear agreement the president said that the iranians have shown that they are complying with the agreement and that they have given the europeans 60 days since the beginning of may and that is about to run out in about 3 weeks time meanwhile the spokesperson for iran's atomic energy agency announced today iraq's nuclear facility that iran will reach the limits of 300 kilograms of enrich uranium within the next 10 days that means that iran will exceed what it greets you under the agreement of 2015 also that the heavy water limits that they have which is $130.00 tons of heavy water that will also be exceeded by the iranians within the next 2 and a half months now all this comes as the tensions in the region have increased between the united states and iran and that is something the rainey and officials are blaming on the fact that the united states withdrew from this nuclear agreement last year they're saying the europeans are not holding up their end of the deal

because they are worried about american sanctions they will be facing if they do business with iran and the reins are saying that is not something that can continue and something has to be done in the region stability and security hangs in the balance a well known member of hong kong's pro-democracy movement has been freed from prison and is joining mass protests joshua one said to jail sentence for his role in the 24 demonstrations the block tom collins major roads for weeks now he's backing calls for the city's beijing backed leader to resign. we urge the leader of hong kong carolan. withdraw the extradition that might extradite hong kong people to mainland china for unfair trial. and just leave prison today mourning is lucky that even i missed those. demonstrations now i can

join the fight and let people get to know that. china not keep silence now the founder and c.e.o. of the chinese tech giant huawei is blaming the united states for projected $30000000000.00 drop in revenue over the next 2 years and the panel held at ways headquarters said sales of its smart phones overseas have already dropped by 40 percent since january last month the u.s. banned american companies from selling technology to huawei accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and threatening cyber security. at the time we didn't think this matter would disrupt business we did not anticipate it was going to be as severe as it has become we've done some preparation it's like a badly damaged plane we've protected. the fuel tank we didn't protect our parts at least 30 people have been killed in an attack in northeastern nigeria 2 suicide bomber set off a device that left dozens of others injured in the area no group has claimed

responsibility but boko haram has often carried out suicide bombings in the region the u.s. has issued a security alert after recent bombings in saudi arabia the consulate in jeddah issued the warning after 2 car bombings on june 7th several people were injured the advisory also added u.s. citizens to use extrusion caution because of recent missile and drone attacks near the border meanwhile yemen's who thier rebels say they've targeted a saudi airport with a drone for the 4th time since wednesday has not confirmed the attack. well those are the headlines join me for more news here on al-jazeera after a rewind stay with us.

hello and welcome to rewind i'm richelle carey. since we launched al jazeera english back in 2006 our library of award winning documentaries has been growing year by year so here on rewind you decided to revisit some of the most important of those stories once again today rewinding to 2010 and north korea for the past several months or korea's deteriorating relations with the u.s. and the administration and 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 tries belligerent response and 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 70 years ago back in 2010 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 10 take 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 here's dirty little secrets.

almost 60 years ago this peaceful lake was the scene of either a terrible crime. or a cynical hoax. each of these own is either a witness to the crime or a participant in that hoax. what happened or never happened here in 9. in 52 is the key to one of the most intractable international disputes today. the korean war it was the 1st armed confrontation of the cold. in 1906 the united states unilaterally divided korea along the 38th parallel. when in 1950 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 word. over the next 3 bloody years an estimated 2000000 soldiers died. at least 2000000 civilians were killed or wounded and millions more were made homeless. but early in 1952 north korea claimed that villages throughout the country were suffering unprecedented outbreaks of bubonic plague anthrax and typhus. it 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 meet 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. yes over the past 20 years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young secretive rulers. like a healthy boy he joined us. shows how was i not only 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 firsthand. 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 this and heavy disease is injects like a small boy says into the insects and the thoughts inside like disposed of and dropped into evidence it's 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 34 kinds of insects.

c in a separate projection room mari is given a private screening of what north korea claims is new skill shot in 1952. 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. can children that doesn't even know any. and all sounds i thought i didn't notice and. that there i don't i. have any gene they can i want out you know the rest of us but humans from which country where these insects are 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 need 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 in show he'll miss things that are serving us sekai no. court orders that the national. committees and commissions that you know. some of his in a campaign that new sewing room are sending the hoga here to quit a hockey star their. kids had attained for your discharge and. the. dawn of a pyongyang. at 7 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 45 kilometers east of pyongyang 2 elderly farmers are waiting to meet him. you've been a toxic loss their fathers during the war both claim that an american plane dropped a german bomb close to the village and. then you decide to go.

you know do your. job. has been preserved you must call it global kill you bitch i don't need to bully. has another. borehole in the. dunny in bulimba that are going to. you now own you. mind you're making a very probably 27 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 clean. i mean not many not.

only will they didn't see or don't don't you donna you're wrong madison or your kid i mean my thoughts go with him and he played a song. 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. his in the. it's here to polaris had a new human the day here in monotone that i thought. many asses to me me. it's a sense that i'm the 2nd guy in one goalie oliver although i never wanted to

put in the pay your money to walk there. i guess you might say oh i want to. go ahead and do it god told. in their filmed confessions the american air force officers expressed apparently genuine remorse for their actions can i go back and take my family and them alive or. how can i tell them me thanks but i am a criminal and i love you man. 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 of. them in a code of mess and it's gonna. kokanee is own static kill

any time of the. night but this is also when economists. yeah i believe i'm a judge in sox terminal connecting the sox. as i wasn't 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 1982 he was in his final year at school. of the camera he could have been all you know going down from hong kong you knew reasonable water. that they're going to google you going to but you could go to. the to me they thought of it but now.

there's a. little pod jonathan. came yamani to the needs of the road in a death a content i can not again. in march 952 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 maton village claimed to have been the victims of a very different weapon my own. he go below. me he told me he would he.

still couldn't. you could put in their. food they may kiss me good luck incidents he. calmly i would have you would have been there. to me will have a day so. you didn't book me can you tell me you don't have or do you need to get the why will you take it in the. long call. if you get some day i. don't know i know a lot of this. 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. they're already killing your own one. on one of the people who. ordered

a 100 more normal for parking people from people who didn't know what part of what i thought would hold on i'm sure as hell don't last long. they're going to. go. 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 rubbish. that they be or can just signing in the here yet they still have. the music on the play again with us no. no no no no it's not up. so you are going to know that i put you on with us now that i. the clear state decides when he isn't. but marty knows that testimony from north korean citizens will not be enough to convince

a skeptical world that the united states used germ warfare in korea says your higher stuff so i just saying no choice are a honey he i going to need in a creditable dollar he joins. us. 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 $600.00 page report included results of post-mortems on the victims these identified plague typhoid cholera and anthrax. it concluded the germ warfare had been deployed

exactly as the north koreans claimed but despite its wealth of scientific evidence it was dismissed by america as communist this information. moment excellent isn't there and you know i got used and you know i have you. know or. i send. a whole lot of thing to what are you doing. today at the 38th parallel korea remains divided north and south korea remain technically at war every hour of every day the border guards square up to each other across the symbolic dividing line under the constant gaze of american forces. but because search for information about biological warfare in korea will take him far away from this

disputed border. in northeastern china. in the 1930 s. and 1940 s. japan occupied this part of china. inside these brick buildings a division of the imperial japanese army units 731 carried out grotesque human experiments as a result japan became the 1st country ever to perfect the technology of biological warfare. agents in this. scenario to tend. to either to sail with the dead early or well the 93. 100 only all.

times are war for the 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 2 japan dropped thousands of these bombs throughout northern china infecting towns and villages with plague cholera anthrax and typhoid . in their follow up office. so you. are lying dead on the bottle that they don't unit 731 was run by japanese scientists and led by general shiro. yet despite clear evidence that unit 731 used biological warfare on such an industrial scale after the war now the sheer

ashi nor the leaders of his germ weapons team was ever prosecuted for war crimes. in the end. we are the. other forces. the techniques and the germs used by unit 731 match exactly the details of north korea's claims of american biological warfare and today chinese officials at least a convinced that there was a link between the 2 may say your wording and there was. show you all the details. yet. to selwood a

that should. just. for professor mari the narrative he has heard amid the ruins of unit 731 is deeply shocked. when i get older snails or they can i you know or she should or innocent young innocent japan khaleda going on there. are no interest there. i have. some your kindness had some nice continuous. but i see. no it's. not a sense that i know of. someone of another. who says ones i saw last fall it's not a particle to knock on their knee so no it's another thing. how could he she escaped justice. did america really use his pioneering technology to wage

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hello i'm mr hall with the headlines on al-jazeera the iranian atomic agency says the country will exceed its uranium stockpile limit set by the 2015 new kid in 10 days iran stopped it hearing to some elements of the agreement after the u.s. withdrew last year then i. will begin to mortician my countdown has started in 10 days time on june 27th we will exceed the 300 kilogram limit of enriched uranium allowed under the nuclear deal off the dutch we will continue to increase the speed of production drastically a face of hong kong's pro-democracy movement has been freed from jail and joshua long is now joining mass protests against proposed extradition changes that would

allow people to be sent to mainland china for trial we urge the leader of hong kong carolan. and fully withdraw the extradition law that might extradite hong kong people to mainland china faced unfair trial i served jail sentence and just leave prison today mourning is lucky that even i missed those. demonstrations now i can join the fight and lead people to iraq to know that under the rule of china we would not keep silence. and now the founder and c.e.o. of chinese tech giant huawei is blaming the united states for a projected $30000000000.00 drop in revenue over the next 2 years and the panel held it while weighs headquarters say said sales of its smart phones overseas have already dropped by 40 percent since january last month the u.s. banned american companies from selling technology to huawei accusing the company of stealing trade secrets and threatening cyber security. at least 30 people have been

killed in an attack in northeastern nigeria 2 suicide bombers set off a device that left dozens of others injured in the can do gay area no group has claimed responsibility but boko haram has often carried out suicide bombings in the region the u.s. has issued a security alert after recent bombings in saudi arabia the consulate in jeddah issued the warning after 2 car bombings on june 7th several people were injured the advisory also urged u.s. citizens to use extreme caution because of recent missile and drone attacks near the yemeni border well those are the headlines and now it's back to rewind to stay with us. november 2009 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 58 year old claims that america used a biological warfare in the korean war and. the may give. you one egypt saudi money could be will be a future you don't care you days or who were not able to win. none would really. go pradhan which uncle.

always had and. but while professor maltese 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. 2 documents reveal a disturbing relationship between america and she is she the mastermind behind japan's biological warfare program unit 731. they show that after the war the american military intelligence shielded the leaders of. unit 731 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 us b. w.

program so we decide that we're going to trade in this sort of of deal of we trade issues non-prosecution for his secrets which he smuggle out arm and so the deal is made the trunks of 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 entertained. from 1947 behind this security fence at fort dietrich in maryland the u.s. army began work to expand issues use of insects to deliver bubonic plague anthrax

cholera and typhus not very far from edgewood in historic frederick maryland 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 a biological warfare agent can be generated so successful was fort dietrich in perfecting the technology of biological warfare that in the late 1951 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 largescale field tests should be conducted to determine the effectiveness of specific b.w. agents under operational conditions.

at 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 731 suggests that these trials may have been actively assisted by the original masterminds of biological warfare go to hurt or jose's order. he says oh oh. oh who. might have been conned. and who isn't as it was in my lesson. and she's on governor's on board but does a. tour says his own niece has led them. to believe that the who goes.

according to north korea america began dropping bombs filled with infected insects in january 952 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 jeffrey 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 insects are given that appears to be snow i would guess that of the big it could be something like stone flies crawling around on the snout but for professor lockwood 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 claimed 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 0 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 happen 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 $152.00 united states representatives took to the floor of the united nations it is no exaggeration to say. that problem 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 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 functions against chemical biological and radiological warfare is the responsibility of the army chemical corps were insects dropped over north korea and parts of china my sense is that there were incidents that involved. probably quite limited. but very very important us testing biological materials and how will the issue ever be laid to rest once and

for all i don't know the issue will be later i mean how would it be is with the smoking gun with with with definitive testimony from a u.s. official who was involved in the program and can say yes we did. the key to the mystery may lie with the american at force offices who originally confessed to dropping bombs. 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 85 years old today he enjoys a comfortable retirement sharing wartime memories with his wife barbara these are supposed to be bombs over here is that right those are balmy survey and i think it

says if this man is hungry give him food. but from 1950 onward left tenant kenneth enoch was another gates on u.s. air force b. 26 bombing missions over north korea all but one or 2 most of missions we threw at night by favorite target was trains we were in and i train's you know but sometimes the one would almost hit the engine. and actually if we drop net napalm on the engine you know to try and discourage them i guess it was the you could feel old napalm go off on january the 13th 952 after 53 night bombing missions the next plane was shot down and he bailed out over north korean territory and landed in 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 thought dark fought 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 minogue was captured by north korean and chinese soldiers it was the morning but this 27th birthday they marched me down 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 and all that we're going to send and anyway you know they don't want to trouble for a while but anyway. so i was. left in and would be held captive in north korea for the next 20 months but what happened to him and what he did during his time as a prisoner of you would prove to be one of the most bitterly disputed pieces of evidence in the allegations of american biological warfare. that. there. was. no.

there. on april the 1st 952 kenneth the no committed detailed confession that he had taken part in a series of biological warfare missions. on film and over 8 closely written pages left hannity not described his biological weapons instructions. or the techniques of dropping germ bombs that they have. never read but. they and the code word assigned to log them on his return 3. or. ordinary. in all 36 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 is. going to. but you have been there but the basic germ warfare bombing over north korea if you care to make a statement regarding. it or left tenant kenneth enoch's retraction was typical. movie were recording interviews were forced upon

me that johnny. said that due to my for him or due to my confession 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 used by the time that. it cures they made yesterday they use both physical and mental pressure they put me around. me attention for long periods. 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 60 years later kenny enoch now denies he was ill treated by his captors whatever actions these were very

brutal thoughts 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 not 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 pot full of charcoal you know. and they put it in the room to keep me warm the 2nd 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. there are russian publications and so on on communism today once again his story changes try to let you. know if you want to be there it hurts. that. they had already. i don't think so for dockery they had all kinds of books or if you want to go i guess and if you bought one you did like you know just over here so why then did he make such a detailed confession today he claims that it was a deliberate deception there was 4 days false 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 always like. yeah but 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 it would have been a real dandy probably would have had the president somewhere. the difficulty with this story is that many of the dates and places detailed in kenneth the knox 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 60 years

on kenneth enoch seems to make at least a partial admission that the united states did deploy bacteriological weapons 1st of all i think you have to understand what what this. biological warfare or whatever or car is a pretty big deal 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 what do you know going nowhere the same errors fly you know i'm 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 23rd 19522 months after he was captured and one week before he made his written confession. and after the war the u.s. 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. know the danger. is whether come up with a lot going on in a committee someone you. wish is used in the. old order you claim a lot of fun out there it's telling that if you use

a sage brush that they felt that he's got. more pull not nicholas until now they go and he said to the court and i says no juanita just look at. washington remembers the korean war very differently to pyongyang. the united states still on as 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 10 specific questions about north korea's claims.

instead a government spokesperson issued a 2 line statement describing the allegations as baseless and the dissin from a 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 war mysteries will continue to haunt its relationship. with the world's most secretive state. dirty little secrets from 2010 a persuasive story but one that has been consistently denied by every american administration for more than 60 years and north korea though this story contributes

to a profound suspicion of the united states and its intentions and south-east asia i'm joined now from u.k. by professor hazel smith a 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 60 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 are atrocities by the north koreans by the south koreans there are 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 $953.00 once when the war ended there's been no communication between the 2 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 1950 s. remains controversial now the store no smoking gun evidence this to took place but it forms part of the official discourse it doesn't however form part of the day to day discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for 2 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 raised of course things like the fact that there were so many men killed in the 1950 s. in the war that there were disproportionate amounts of women left alive today

for a brief moment there is a slight 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 for prevention of military 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. grams or 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 hearts of the matter on the korean peninsula at least talking to each other now in 2080 in

a way that they haven't been for 2 or 3 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 smith for joining us and that is it from us to check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series irish i'll carry thank you for joining us see you dance at.

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