Anthrax case angers NK

A live anthrax sample was sent to the United States Forces Korea's Osan Air Base, south of Seoul, last week. / Yonhap

By Lee Min-hyung

North Korea has expressed anger over the inadvertent shipment of a live anthrax sample to a U.S. military laboratory in South Korea.

“The U.S. is provoking biochemical warfare to annihilate us,” a high-ranking North Korean official told the regime’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

“It is proven that the U.S. has long prepared for the warfare.

“The Park Geun-hye administration remained silent, though the U.S. conducted such horrible experiments.”.

The North urged its people to fight against the South, which it claimed left the Korean Peninsula as a testing ground for biochemical war.

Following the incident, the U.S. military said it was the first mistaken shipment and the first experiment at the South’s military base.

Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met South Korean counterpart Han Min-koo and apologized for the incident. Carter promised to take measures to prevent its recurrence.

But South Korea was not the only country to have received the live anthrax samples. They were also sent to three laboratories in Canada, USA Today reported on Monday.