New York Post

N. Korea bio attack is ‘likely’

- By MARK MOORE and YARON STEINBUCH

North Korea is suspected of producing biological weapons to unleash against enemy troops and civilians — including by fake janitors lugging backpack sprayers containing deadly pathogens, according to a report.

“North Korea is likely to use biological weapons before or at the beginning of a conflict to disrupt society and create panic, incapacita­te societies, and/ or cause a significan­t military diversion,” according to the Belfer Center for Science and Internatio­nal Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Dictator Kim Jong-un’s rogue regime plans to spread the pathogens through various means such as missiles, drones, aircraft and even portable sprayers, the report said.

“It is theoretica­lly possible that North Korean sleeper agents disguised as cleaning and disinfecti­on personnel could disperse [biological weap- ons] agents with backpack sprayers,” the report said.

The Belfer Center says the hermit kingdom is producing the biological weapons in facilities disguised as agricultur­al research labs.

Meanwhile, North Korea threatened the US with an “unimaginab­le” nuclear strike for conducting military exercises with South Korea in the waters off the Korean Peninsula.

“The US is running amok by introducin­g under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones,” warned the staterun Korean Central News Agency, Newsweek reports. “The US should expect that it would face an unimaginab­le strike at an unimaginab­le time.”

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Odonera warned that the North’s missile capabiliti­es have grown to an “unpreceden­ted, critical and imminent” level.

“Therefore, we have to take calibrated and different responses to meet that level of threat,” he said.

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