says the changes in the political landscape in the middle east and north africa. on al-jazeera. the. the us. how again i missed. the headlines for you here on al-jazeera the 1st batch of the pfizer coronavirus vaccine is being dispatched across the united states the vaccination of health care workers on the elderly begins on monday that's as the nationwide death toll approaches 300000 j. gray has more on those shipments from outside a hospital in chicago that's becoming a large scale vaccine center all of the experts there are stressing that to get this done and to really beat this virus 70 to 80 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated and it's not a wait and see type thing they are saying that this is all been done above board

and very transparent and that the science is there backing this vaccine when you talk to the staff here they're very excited about it say that they hope they can be an example that they can get this shot and get the follow up shot 3 weeks later and show the community show the entire country that it's safe and what needs to be done to move forward the saudi arabian port of jedda has been closed after an explosion on an oil tanker that was delivering cargo the shipping company said the b.w. ryan had been hit by an unidentified external source that caused the blast and a fire barry is the director of the gulf studies center university he says this is a serious incident in a critical part of the red sea. it's very interesting to see this happened just after one month of what about the other incident that we have to look at also what was happening to our eye previously i think of this we have to look at the context the context that is it is very tense there is a tension between. so use and how these there's

a tension between so there and there are there's a tension between iran and the united states and alliances and the region so it's a very it's a very tense moment. and the minute we have to look at also the consequences of the assisting nation of day and nuclear scientists of iran what is either so i think the context is very tense and there are lots of books of the nation who will appear in next few hours about what's happening but it does reflect that this region is basically is very tense and you know now the state actors militia can act with. or with instructions from 3rd party if it's needed and i think that is what we what we have to keep our eye on it russia's foreign minister has said that normalization between israel and arab countries shouldn't replace the aim of creating a palestinian state 2nd lavrov is holding talks in moscow with his u.a.e.

counterparts they've been discussing a wide range of issues including the gulf crisis and the situations in syria and libya the united states has officially removed her don from its list of state sponsors of terrorism the trumpet ministration approved the move as a side deal to saddam's known as ation agreement with israel in october at washington and khartoum signed an agreement to restore the country's sovereign immunity meaning it contravenes sued in american courts and return sued on paid $335000000.00 to the victims of the 1900 al-qaeda attacks on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. leaders of 5 african nations are meeting to discuss the escalating violence and more than recent baek which is already displaced thousands of people the united nations says attacks by 5000 into eisel has forced 400000 people to flee groups in kabul delgado province say have they've seized key towns for brief periods wanting to set up

a caliphate there that region is also home to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project as union leaders in india have the gun a one day hunger strike in a bid to ramp up protests there of a new agricultural rolls farmers have been camped out on major highways for weeks now blocking some entry points into the capital new delhi they're angry over legislation that would change the rules about the sale and pricing of produce hackers have infiltrated networks at the u.s. treasury department and possibly other government agencies the u.s. national security council says it's investigating the cyber attack that comes less than a week after a major u.s. cyber security firm called fire i said foreign government had this had stolen the company's own hacking tools well those are the headlines will be more news here off to rewind. to is.

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 we've 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 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 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 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 american sis 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. to suppose to not. what happened or never happened here the night. in 52 is the key to one of the most intractable international disputes today. the korean war was the 1st armed confrontation of the cold. in 946 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 another part of the where. over the next 3 bloody years an estimated 2000000 soldiers died while many. 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. 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. than 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 is 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 but all of us socially my one of the most. 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 pauses into the insects and the thoughts inside like disposed and drops into the 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. 'd 'd 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 your new. concerto that isn't even any. and all songs i sent out i didn't notice and. without there i don't i. but i can have any gene they can i want out of the restlessness but humans from which country would be insects are dropped by american

pilots or placed here by north korean propagandists is this evidence of a war crime or is america claim merely crude propaganda you don't even want you to meet. him and it must get him so they call it. cairo or could out they were she. killed me i wish to us he show he'll miss things that are serving us sekai no. court orders now then issue no. or committees and commissions that you know. some of his in a campaign that you so you must send in now hoga your quick haughty start their. cause had attained for you more this you are into. the. dawn of a pyongyang. at 7

am government sirens wake the city summoning its people to begin a new day's work. mari massa 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 one g. a village 45 kilometers east of pyongyang 2 elderly farmers are waiting to meet him . you can chan been a toxic loss their fathers during the war both claim that an american plane dropped

a german bomb close to the village turning it. into a residential cycle. you know new york. 100. percent over you must call it will you get out of need to go. has another such only don't bore. him go danny. in bulimba that are going to use her own family you now in you. mind you're making a very funny 27 tomorrow night you would repeat your made 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

cleaned up pregnant i mean after many knock. on the train a bit of it will pick it didn't see any one on their own. only your medicine or your. kid i mean my thoughts go with him and he. saw me. when the kid didn't see them and now you're. close to being there when i'm older and this could. mean i'm a truth that. you were a prosecutor and then when. i have eyes in the arm of. i'm going to do it isn't there. a. human that i hear in monotone that i thought you belong to me as to me me.

isn't that i'm the 2nd guy. and one goalie i love you more i never want to participate in your money. i give you my they are all i want to. do i can do with the full. 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 or. how can i tell them in banks that 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 on or he will kill them in

a code of medicine that is gonna. kill me is on study. some of the. night but this is also one economists. yeah i believe i'm a judge in sox terminal kinetic and you talk. as i walk out of it over to him not in any court. mores mission is taking him deeper into north korea's rural hinterland and into the areas most heavily bombed during the war. over here matter and village in the east of the country he meets shake young stock in 1982 he was in his final year at school. of the camera he could have been home building moved on from hong kong you knew reasonable in order

. to take in the going a little too but the case got into. the very thought of it. as a. pod jonathan. came yamani to the needs of their own in a death a contented order that 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 a lawyer known. he going to them oh

good that me he told. me you. think. you could put in there. who would make it's kind of thing that comes with thinking that. you would have been there. to me will have a thing so. you didn't bore me you could talk. to me if i could the why will you take it in the. young core. to get their. content and done all i know or can i do this. she said she. 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. and all the killing with your own one.

also the lot of people who like a lot. more 100 more normal overall parking here were from people through people who didn't know what her voted off would hold on i'm not sure how the last long. though. i'm going to law. yours or. her time to we're. going to rule we're not talking about right awful. special car to crush a. little bit but. they we're going just saying thank yous and here yet they still are. playing music on the playground with us no. no no no no no it's not up. so you're sure you're going to pull you're with us now that. but the state decides when he isn't

a 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 hire staff so i just saying no choice are ahead and he i going to need a creditable 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 'd. the commission's $600.00 page report included results of post-mortems on the victims these identified plague typhoid

cholera and anthrax. 'd 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. the. moment excellent us and i miss you i thought you pushed and as you know i had . no. dice in the interest of. the. whole are talking to what are you doing. today at the 38th parallel career 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. carbon 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.

fade in. color to mean. the trash the japanese experiments exposed to the 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 tie for you to. do. the show on the bottle that they don't already unit 731 was run by japanese scientists and led by general sharon. despite clear evidence that

unit 731 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 in their forty's they are what they. say deal so when you're. doing. this on all the. we are the. ball where a dollar of the keys are for their story and they end all hurt all weather for so. 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. there was. show

you all the details. yet you. should. just ship. for professor mari the narrative he has heard amid the ruins of unit 731 is deeply shocked. when i told a snail they can i you know or she should or innocent young when i was in japan come later when a snare. on interest there. by . some your kindness had some english continuous. but i see. no. nonsense you. know or from. someone of another. who says one's a so they must follow suit particle to knuckle their knee so nor know that the.

how could he she escaped justice did america really use his pioneering technology to wage biological warfare in korea. or were 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. to in kolkata culture of knowledge openness and pluralism worldwide to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity the shape come out award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and on a translators and acknowledge their role in strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation between our of islamic and wild cultures.

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the. hello there i'm just as your tail and with the headlines for you here on al-jazeera the 1st batch of the pfizer grown of our spec seen as being dispatched across the united states and the vaccination of health care workers in the elderly begins on monday as the nationwide death toll approaches 300000 jay gray has more on those vaccine shipments from outside a hospital in chicago that's becoming a large scale vaccines and all of the experts there are stressing that to get this done and to really beat this virus 70 to 80 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated and it's not a wait and see type thing they are saying that this is all been done above board

and very transparent and that the science is there backing this vaccine when you talk to the staff here they're very excited about it say that they hope they can be an example that they can get this shot and get the follow up shot 3 weeks later and show the community show the entire country that it's safe and what needs to be done to move forward and the 1st batch of that pfizer vaccine has now also arrived in canada the initial 30000 doses will go to front line health care workers and care home staff canada hopes to have a quarter of a 1000000 doses by the end of this year canadian regulators are also expected to approve the madonna vaccine within days there's been an explosion on an oil tanker delivering cargo at saudi arabia's jeddah ports the shipping company said the double the b.w. run had been hit by an unidentified external source that caused the blast and the fire russia's foreign minister has said that normalization between israel and arab countries should not replace the aim of creating

a palestinian state sergey lavrov is holding talks in moscow with his u.a.e. counterparts they've been discussing a wide range of issues including the gulf crisis and the situations in syria and libya. leaders of 5 african nations on missing to discuss rising violence and displacement of in northern mozambique the united nations says attacks by ice a linked feiss have forced 400000 people to flee the u.s. has officially removed saddam from its list of state sponsors of terrorism the trumpet ministration of proof that move as a side deal to sudan's wilma's ation agreement with israel in october washington and khartoum signed an agreement to restore the country's sovereign immunity meaning that it can no longer be sued an american courts well those are the headlines and now it's back to part 2 of rewind. 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 the talk about nuclear weapons depends on resolution of the 58 year old claims that america used biological warfare in the korean war and. b b you go coming on who doesn't really go where you want egypt saudi money korb you would be. if you told you didn't care you days or who were not going to go door to when i gave you. none would really.

go power gordon with junk or view hunger or cancer and i've. always had not and. 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. 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 u.s. b.w. program so we decided that we're going to trade in the sort of of deal. we trade issues non-prosecution for here's cigarettes which is smuggled out are 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 any. one in historic frederick maryland on the biological warfare laboratories. were working on delivery systems from planes 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 clowder 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 large scale

field tests should be conducted to determine the effectiveness of specific b.w. agents under operational conditions. or you know at the time america was fighting only one looming 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 may 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 focusing their tours joses or the. oh. my it doesn't take being conned only. i know who is causing those who is in my lesson. and. for the times our doors are new.

to us is our nature to be so they're going. to go because. according to north korea. 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 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 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 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 1900 to 2 united states representatives took to the floor of the united nations it is no exaggeration to say. that problem regrettably

run now came from the world they denounced the north korean evidence as a clumsy fake and a lie. but he. 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 lawyer working up to functions 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 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 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 bob these are

supposed to be bombs over here is that right those are bomb reserves they are in a think is says if this man is hungry give him food. but from 1950 on wood left tenant can. it was another gates on u.s. air force b. 26 bombing missions over north korea all but one or 2 most missions we flew at night i favorite target was trains we were like trains you know sometimes that 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 13th 95253 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 spot 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 27th birthday there might be done 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. so i was. left tenant enoch 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 war would prove to be one of the most bitterly disputed pieces of evidence in the allegations of american biological warfare. that the out.

there. was. the fact. that there. was. on april the 1st 952 kennedy not committed detailed confession that he had taken part in a series of biological warfare missions. on film and over 8 closely written pages left tendency not describe his biological weapons instructions. or the techniques of dropping germ bombs that they have. never heard of. but. that they and the code word assigned to log them on his return bring. more. 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 u.s. 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 or 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 their unit it is. an authority that you have and. the basic germ warfare bombing the over north korea if you care to make a statement that going in. if left in and kenneth enoch's retraction was typical.

movie we're recording interviews. were forced upon me johnny. said that due to my part they were 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 you find that. it cures they made yesterday they use both physical and mental pressure they put 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 60 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 not home and it was cold and 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 lay it and they put it in the room to keep me warm

the 2nd reason flight left tenant he not gay for making his confession was mental pressure also forced to read their propaganda. to make paper book comment 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 that really hurts. you know i mean. i don't think so for dockery they had all kind 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 false they 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 tracy you know dick tracy over there yeah richard tracy what. you know and i was going to put a junior in there to you know what we're doing here tracy you tell you all this this but you know. yeah. but they were there i wanted them to be recognizable so i got tracy and junior that would been great except that. you know you can't put too many people on one of them or its worst it would have been a real dandy probably would have had a president from where. the difficulty with this story is that many of the dates and places detailed in kennedy 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. key biological warfare or whatever or quark 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 fairies we 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 you were as you know i don't know where this thing or 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 23rd 19522 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. also know the dangers she. will show. us whether come up with a lot going on in a committee someone you. wish is used in the.

old order new car i know a lot of fun out there it's the helmet i have to use a sage brush there definitely needs. more pull on it. now they go and he said he will do that quick 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 disinfo mission campaign that refuses to die. just. 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 southeast 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 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 953 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. 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 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 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 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 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 so you can answer. thank. you thank you. following 2 fatal crashes and the pasta bowl and decided to brown the brand new 747 bags but this wasn't the 1st time you cropped back in 2013 in the 77 dreamliner ran into

trouble when a better record. that is out of the us investigative unit discovered both more to the problem than just smoking batteries. rewind of broken dreams the boeing 787 on al-jazeera. well it may be some of it is a cold wind blowing up through argentina bringing cloud with it it'll eventually spark some pretty big shows up in the north of the time being is just knocking temps back or at least make you feel that where the sun is too predominant the shadows we've seen recently have been pretty big as

a came out of northern argentina into the southeast of brazil in around paraguay they've eased off a little bit i think be bucked off again by the time we get to wednesday same is true in bolivia the rainfall across the chooses rather large one but in the western side of amazonia still fairly heavy ecuador too and the rest coast of colombia dips fairly wet whereas she comes the north the thompsons the trade winds are blowing now we get light showers in both we would on the leeward but not much else not until the kodak coming out again of the u.s. briefly pepcid showers in mexico but that's the thing still to come now it is cold in the u.s. we've seen when she weather in the form of snow comes through arkansas that's all been pushed south was so you can imagine temperatures are on their way down so whilst we got reagan 1st in the east coast following a cold blast watch raleigh go from 14000 to 7 below by mid-week was snow to follow again for.

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