The report points out that North Korea has been focusing on its biological weapons program.

US officials have warned that North Korea is developing deadly bacteria and viruses as part of the country’s biological weapons (BW) program. According to the British “Daily Mail” report, the US State Department said in its annual review that the isolated country has developed sprays and “poison pens” as a means of spreading the deadly disease. era. The report, “Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments,” focuses less on North Korea’s nuclear program and more on weapons designed to spread germs like anthrax and smallpox.

The report points out that North Korea has been focusing on its biological weapons program.

“The United States assesses that North Korea has a dedicated national offensive biological weapons program. North Korea has the capability to produce biological agents for military purposes. North Korea has the technical capabilities to produce bacteria, viruses and toxins that can be used as BW agents, ” said the report posted on the State Council’s website.

“Pyongyang may have the capability to weaponize biological weapons agents using unconventional systems such as aerosol sprayers and poison pen injection devices, which have been deployed by North Korea to deliver chemical weapons and could be used to covertly deliver biological weapons agents,” the report added.

“North Korea also has the ability to genetically engineer biological products using technologies such as CRISPR, which has been reported by the North Korean National Academy of Sciences and other sources,” the report said.

CRISPR is the abbreviation for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. It is a technology used to selectively edit genes.

Biological weapons release disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals, or plants. Pathogens such as anthrax can cause illness and death. North Korea is thought to have had biological weapons capabilities since the 1960s.