when family boneset the traumatized child tune between 2 wound struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep fluency in denmark's adoption system to. limit time a witness documentary on al-jazeera 'd. hello i'm don jordan and the come out of the top stories here on al-jazeera hospitals and parts of the u.s. being strained to breaking point as coronavirus cases continue to surge a pfizer vaccine is now being distributed across the country with a 2nd vaccine expected to be approved this week but doctors i want to the worst is yet to come reynolds reports. in california and across the u.s. the coated 900 numbers are staggering in los angeles county population 10000000

there were fewer than 100 intensive care unit beds available on tuesday in some areas like the central valley and counties east of los angeles there are 0 i.c.u. beds left more people will die because the whole gist is that. statewide more than 42000 cases of covert 19 were reported on monday breaking all previous single day records we're still in the tunnel going through the most challenging and difficult search we've experienced since the beginning of this pandemic most of the state is under a stay at home order still public officials pleaded with people to wear masks and socially distance. we just had to order $5000.00 additional body bags they just purchased for the state that should be sobering after more than 300000 deaths nationwide millions of doses of pfizer's vaccine are now being distributed around

the country with medical workers at the front of the line more encouraging news came from the u.s. food and drug administration which found moderna vaccine candidate to be 94 percent effective emergency f.d.a. authorization for the vaccine is expected by the end of the week a new poll shows 71 percent of the u.s. population wants to get vaccinated right away that's an 8 percent increase from september widespread vaccine acceptance is essential to combat in the virus vaccine rollout also costs money congress is still working on multi-billion dollar covert relief legislation but they're not there yet no matter how long it takes will be here until we get a codebook the country's top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci recommended that president elect joe biden who is 78 years old and vice president elect kamel

harris get vaccinated right away in the interests of national security you want him fully protected as he enters into the presidency in january so that would be my strong recommendation biden said he'd take that advice. you like a lot. of the public. much of the ongoing nationwide search is attributed to virus exposure during travel and family gatherings over they thanksgiving holiday last month with hanukkah underway and christmas coming next week doctors are begging americans to stay home and stay safe rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. several nations in europe are still deciding whether to ease or tighten restrictions ahead of the end of year holiday period health experts say lock downs are needed to curb increased travel and a surge in cases but others are warning businesses will pay a heavy price. south korea has recorded over

a 1000 new corona virus infections the highest number in a single day health officials are under pressure to enforce stricter social distancing measures in the capital. u.s. president elect joe biden has been campaigning for democrats in the state of georgia headed to runoff elections next month if the republicans win either contests they would maintain power in the senate allowing them to block biden's policy agendas. australia has no inching a formal appeal to the world trade organization of the chinese decision to impose huge tariffs on its barley in may beijing impose duties on the grain for 5 years the 2 countries have been in a growing trade dispute since australia called for an investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemic and affection a book has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria the students were taken on friday of boarding school and could see in a state. where the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after station that's

a watching. 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 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 on 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 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 to not. what happened or never happened here tonight. 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 146 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 conflict. the fact that common afford to 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 over may. 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 is broadcast by the communist propaganda machine throughout the world. today north korea is the most impenetrable state on the planet. yet over the past 20 years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young

secretive rulers. hired by the i don't call us. shows how was i not already saigon orders and president of the whole of 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 this moans 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 the joan jones promise 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. concerti that doesn't even know any. and all sounds i think that i didn't notice and.

i don't know. but i can have any data can i want out you know 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 even 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 he'll miss things that are so the last 2nd 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 the hoga in a quick start their. kids had a paid for your discharge. 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 m a village 45 kilometers east of pyongyang 2 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 german bomb close to the village. then you go. you know do your. job. to 100. percent over you must have call it global q will you be telling me to bully. has another. bore hole in the. danny in view madrid are going to use. you now in 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 but not. on the trainability of it. didn't see any or don't don't you donna you're wrong madison or you're. giving me my thoughts go get him and he prayed that sonia. gandhi didn't see him and now you. to be there when i am or and there could. be. and then when. i have eyes in the arm of. i'm going

to do what is in the. is here getting a. new human that i hear in monotone that i thought. many asses to me me. it's obvious that i'm the 2nd guy in kind of one goalie i live in the one i want to put in to pay back your money to walk there and . i guess you might say oh i want to not going and doing god's will. in there 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 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 one economist's. 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 a 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 jake young stock

in 1982 he was in his final year at school how. can we get to that in the whole building moved on from hong kong you knew reasonable in order . to think then going are you going to do but u.k. but if you. are to me the thought of it but now. there's a. pod jonathan. came in armani to the needs that i would in a death a content in 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 more young. he going to go below could that mean he told me he wouldn't even. think that it will get put in there. who would make it something people kerns wouldn't he that. cancun you would then there. would be wooers have a thing so. you didn't book me you could tell me you don't have or do anything i can do i will you to get in there. none cause. if you get there. and don't already know somebody 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. also one of the people who got on. board 100 more normal for parking here were from people who didn't know what part of what i thought would hold on i'm not sure how the last long. though. i'm going to law. goes all. the time to work through. who want a room we're not talking about right awful. special car to crush a lot. of the product. that they be or can just sign me so i can send that here yet they still have. the music on the play came 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. but to clear a state this sounds like he's on a path but mari 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 ahead and he i gained in it in 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 toward 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 doesn't have anything i got changed and as you know i had. no. dice in that this person. in the. whole lot of things 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. harbin 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 unit 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.

color to me. the trash the japanese experiments exposed to their lives. 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 type for you to see there for.

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 you'll see on the air. doing kill me all. this all all that. we are called cotton ball where a dollar bill 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 may say your wording and there was. show you all the details. yet the un data should. just. for professor morey the narrative he has heard amid the ruins of unit 731 is deeply shocked. when i get old as nails or they can i you know or she should or innocent young innocent japan come later when us now. who hunted us there. some of your kind us had some english continuous. but i see. no. nonsense and i know.

some of them are not so i says ones i saw last fall it's not the particle to knuckle their knee so no it's another thing. 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. greece the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the northeast tell a different story the group they. believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and the far right. if you don't like.

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are staggering 42000 new cases of covert 19 reports reported on monday in california that broke all previous existing records i mean cows in california is and the nation's largest county los angeles county 10000000 people live here how many i.c.u. units intensive care unit beds are left in los angeles county less than 107 asians in europe are still deciding whether to ease or type instructions ahead of the christmas period health experts say lock downs are needed to curb increased travel and a surge in cases but others are warning businesses will pay a heavy price south korea has recorded over 1000 new corona virus infections the highest number in a single day health officials are under pressure to enforce strict essential distancing measures in the capitol to stop the spread. u.s. president elect joe biden has been campaigning for democrats in the state of

georgia ahead of to run of elections next month if the republicans win either contest or retain control of the senate that would allow them to block biden's policy agenda. australia is launching a formal appeal to the world trade organization of china's decision to impose huge terrorist on its bali in may beijing impose duties on the grain for 5 years china has australia's biggest trading partner to country of the growing dispute strayer call for an investigation into the origins of the corona virus pandemics and affection a book or has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in northern nigeria the students were taken on friday from a boarding school in katsina state there are concerns the government hasn't been forthcoming about the actual number of boys abducted it says it's negotiating with what it calls armed bandits so those are the headlines that these continue on al-jazeera after rewind thank you so much but it.

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 to biological warfare in the korean war and. the media coming on. your own egypt saudi money

korb you will be. as you told you don't care you days or who were not able to win are you. really. go power in which young call. and i've. always had a lot 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 american military intelligence shielded the leaders. 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 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. 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 if she's use of insects to deliver bubonic plague anthrax cholera and typhus not very far from edgewood in historic frederick maryland on the 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 of 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 morning 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 in maine and video testimony given as he was dying by a japanese technician who worked at unit 731 suggests that these trials may have been actively assisted by the original masterminds of biological warfare to hurt or jose's order. oh.

my orders on being gunned down is go demanding that i know. an. order. to his heirs are needed for this. 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 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 with areas there's there's

no scale so i can't tell what. size of those insights are given the 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 luck would the problem is not with the insects the bombs or the snow it's with the ferocity 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 $2.00 united states representatives took to the floor of the united nations you know we grab period from 23. the 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 defenses 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 these are supposed to be bombs over here is that right. i think this is this man under given food. but from 1950 on would left tenant can you see no 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

unleaded and the parachute spilled and i found a corner of a rice paddy. and it was snowy there were quite a bit of snow want to go 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 they mark 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 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 an empty knock 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. that now. that there. was. on april the 1st 952 kennedy naca made a detailed confession that he had taken part in a series of biological warfare missions. on film and over 8 closely written pages left and he not described his biological weapons instructions. or the techniques of dropping germ bombs that they have. never read the. back of it. and the code word assigned to log them on his return rate.

for. 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 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 again it is. time and authority that you have been there but the basic so-called germ warfare bombing over north korea you care to make

a statement regarding the. 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 good in 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 better funded. it 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 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 one time they had me and then 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 with 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. make they were both comment on it that is there there are russian publications and so on communism today once again his story changes try and talk to let you. know if you want to be that really hurts. you know i mean. i don't think so for your time dockery they are kind of books or if you want to go i guess and if you bought one you didn't 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. for days false and anything else i could think of he says that he booby trapped the document giving his fellow crew members the names of american cartoon characters and there was a fellow named dick tracy dick 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 me for doing a trick. you tell you only does this make you always like yeah. but they were there i wanted them to be recognizable so i think that tracy and jr that would have been great except that. you know you can't put too many people on one of them or it's it would have been a real dandy probably would add 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 iraq 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 wheel and it's has what you've got specialists and evil doctor nonsense but but there's. the people who deal and they're don't have to go high and so i was very sweet deal for them. but they said you send it when you

nevertheless he still denies that he personally played any part in the affair i thought what you were is you know i don't think 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 saw you know the danger. it has never come up goings on in a committee someone you. wish is just a guy. there each time if you use a sagebrush that they felt that. now make up and headed to the courthouse no jeweler just look around. 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 disinform ation campaign that refuses to die. of the. 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 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 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 not 53 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 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 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 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 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 at 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 postie have boeing decided to brown the brand new 7 for 7 max but

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