North Korea and bioweapons: US believes Communist dictatorship has engineered CRISPR biological weapons

North Korea has the capability to genetically engineer biological weapons, according to a U.S. government report.

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The report said that North Korea has the capability to genetically engineer biological weapons with technologies such as CRISPR, which have been reported by the North’s State Academy of Sciences and other sources.

Last year’s report said North Korea has “at least a limited capability” to genetically engineer biological weapons. The change in the wording indicates that the North’s biological weapons production capability might have improved.

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This year’s report also said that North Korea has an offensive biological weapons program, adding it continued its program despite becoming a State Party to the Biological Weapons Convention in 1987.

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