North Korea reportedly testing mounting anthrax onto ICBMs

ALARMING report warns Kim Jong-un is pursuing chemical and biological weapons, and has already begun some alarming testing.

North Korea is said to be testing mounting biological weapons onto ICBMs capable of reaching the US. Picture: KCNA/KNS/AP

NORTH Korea is reportedly testing mounting anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles that are capable of striking the United States.

The rogue state is experimenting to see whether anthrax can endure the immense heat and pressure when loaded onto an ICBM and launched toward the earth’s atmosphere, according to Japan’s Asahi newspaper.

Ashahi cited an unidentified person connected to South Korea’s intelligence services.

The report comes just two days after the White House’s US National Security Strategy warned Kim Jong-un is pursuing chemical and biological weapons, Fox News reported.

“North Korea has started experiments such as heat and pressure equipment to prevent anthrax from dying even at a high temperature of over 7000 degrees generated at the time of ICBM’s re-entry into the atmosphere,” the Asahi report stated.

“In part, there is unconfirmed information that it has already succeeded in such experiments.”

On Monday, the White House released its US National Security Strategy that said North Korea is “pursuing chemical and biological weapons which could also be delivered by missile”.

Kim Jong-un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in July. Picture: KCNA/KNS/AP

“North Korea — a country that starves its own people — has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that could threaten our homeland,” the document said.

North Korea vehemently denied the report and accused the US of using biological weapons during the Korean War.

“Properly speaking, it is the US stereotyped method to cook up untruths as truths, stubbornly insisting that black is white and fabricating anything for satisfying their aggressive greed,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency stated.

“And the US itself is an empire of evils full of plots, fabrications, lies and deceptions.

“It is none other than the US, chattering on ‘morality’ and ‘civilisation’, the criminal state that massacred the Korean people by bacteriological weapons during the Korean War and inflict sufferings upon the innocent people by continuing even now to openly use the internationally prohibited weapons.”

South Korea has long suspected North Korea was developing biological weapons.

A commemorative stamp featuring an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un celebrates the launch of a Hwasong-14 ICBM. Picture: Ed Jones/AFP

A report by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs stated the dictatorship may have “anthrax and smallpox” pathogens that could be turned into weapons.

North Korea is believed to have started its chemical and biological weapons program in the early 1960s and began possibly weaponising biological agents in the 1980s, according to the report.

Kim’s scientists launched its “greatest” ICBM in late November that the regime claimed could carry a “superheavy nuclear warhead” which could strike “the whole mainland of the US”.

However, North Korea has yet to perfect its re-entry technology.

A US official told Fox News the Hwasong-15 ICBM did not survive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.

This article originally appeared on Fox News and has been republished with permission.