Germ Research Institute
The Germ Research Institute of the Armed Forces Ministry is responsible for developing biological weapons.
North Korea's bacteriological weapons-related organizations
include
- Kim Il-song University
- Pyongyang Medical College,
- Korean Workers Party Central Biology Institute
- Institute of Microbiological Diseases, Pyongsong Academy of Science
- Microbiology Institute, Academy of Medical Science
- Central Sanitary Quarantine Institute, Ministry of Public Health [germ vaccination institute]
- Pyongyang Military Medical College
- Bacterium Research Institute, Second Academy of Natural Sciences
- National Defense Research Institute and Medical Academy (NDRIMA)
- Medical Institute, Academy of Defense Sciences
- Onjong-ni[?] Songch'on County, South P'yongan Province [large-scale underground germ research institute ]
- preventive military medical unit [not otherwise unidentified]
- No. 25 [25 February?] Plant, Chongju, North P'yongan Province (BW agent production facility)
- Munch'on, Kangwon Province [200-ton annual capacity agar growth media plant]
The work done at the National Defense Research Institute and Medical Academy (NDRIMA) included studies of disease pathogens such as anthrax, cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, yellow fever and others.
Sources and Resources
- North Korean Mass Destruction Weapons Choi Ju-hwal, OCTOBER 21 1997
- Weekly Assesses DPRK Nuclear War Preparations Document Number: FBIS-EAS-94-126 : 30 Jun 1994
- South Korea: Monthly on DPRK Weapons of Mass Destruction : FBIS-EAS-98-325 : 21 Nov 1998
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