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Considering that the country was reported to have<br \/>\nbegun manufacturing chemical weapons since the 1970s, the total amount<br \/>\npossessed is likely to be higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Decades ago, Dr. Ri Sung Gi was a renowned chemist who<br \/>\ninvented Vinalon, a lightweight synthetic fiber, ushering in a small textile<br \/>\nrevolution in North Korea. However, reports allege that Kim Il Sung secretly<br \/>\nordered Dr. Ri to kickstart the country\u2019s biochemical weapons program, with the<br \/>\nchemist having no choice but to comply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr. Ri died while being criticized by many North Korean<br \/>\nresidents, rather than being recognized for his contribution to the country\u2019s<br \/>\neconomic development. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The reason for the criticism is that in 1989, there was an<br \/>\nincident in which scores of people died instantly or collapsed in the streets<br \/>\nof Sunchon City, South Pyongan Province, and were transported to hospital. I<br \/>\narrived in the city the next day and was unaffected, but at the time, all<br \/>\nhospitals in Sunchon City and neighboring Pyongsong were full of injured<br \/>\npeople, some of whom were even transferred to Pyongyang.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It was later revealed that some local residents<br \/>\ninadvertently precipitated the incident after climbing onto a tank car<br \/>\nstationed at Sunchon Railway Station. They opened the lid, thinking it<br \/>\ncontained diesel oil [to siphon off] but it was in fact a toxic precursor<br \/>\npurportedly for use in the manufacture of biochemical weapons.<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Soon after the lid was opened, a cloud of yellow gas spread<br \/>\ninto the air, and the people nearby immediately collapsed, with hundreds of<br \/>\npeople dying at the scene in the span of only a few hours. Thousands were<br \/>\ninjured and left with gruesome side effects, but the authorities primarily<br \/>\nfocused on preventing the news from spreading to other regions.<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now, 30 years on, state institutions including the Hamhung<br \/>\nbranch of the State Academy of Sciences are reportedly continuing their<br \/>\nresearch into the development of chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The North Korean government transformed its domestic<br \/>\nchemical industry into a producer of weapons of mass destruction for its own<br \/>\nnefarious purposes. The international community must respond appropriately to a<br \/>\nregime that resorts to the use of a weapon of mass destruction in a public<br \/>\nplace to secure its reign of terror.<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information on this secretive family, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-jong-un-family-wife-daughter-children-sister-mother-everything-we-need-to-know\/\">comprehensive article on the Kim family.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspicions that North Korea maintains a stockpile of biochemical weapons have been raised since the Malaysian authorities confirmed that VX, a deadly nerve agent, was used to kill Kim Jong Nam. VX is the most powerful nerve agent known and is classified as a weapon of mass destruction. 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