North Korea producing, testing WMD

North Korea is producing chemical weapons at more than a dozen facilities and is suspected of testing them on healthy human subjects, a U.S. research team said.

John Hopkins researchers, writing on their 38 North blog Thursday, said North Korea has the means to produce and deploy "significant quantities" of chemical weapons throughout the region and possibly worldwide.

"Just as ominous as these chemical weapons production and delivery capabilities is a growing body of evidence that indicates a [North Korean] history of proliferation of chemical capabilities to nations such as Syria, Iran and others," researchers said.

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