From February to March 1952, more bulletins reported disease outbreaks in the area of Chorwon, Pyongyang, Kimhwa and even Manchuria.
On 28 January 1952, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army headquarters received a report of a smallpox outbreak southeast of Incheon. A few days later, Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy repeated the denials. He accused the communists of spreading "deliberate lies". General Matthew Ridgway, United Nations Commander in Korea, denounced the initial charges as early as May 1951. Allegations ĭuring 1951, as the war turned against the United States, the Chinese and North Koreans made vague allegations of biological warfare, but these were not pursued. The biological weapons research facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland was expanded, and a new one in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was developed. On 30 June 1950, soon after the outbreak of the Korean War, the US Defense Secretary George Marshall received the Report of the Committee on Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare and Recommendations, which advocated urgent development of a biological weapons program. Leaders of Unit 731 were exempted from war crimes prosecution by the United States and then placed on the payroll of the US. The US government had taken over the research at the end of the war and had then covered up the program.
It was later revealed that the accusations made against the Japanese military were correct. However, at that time, the US government described the Khabarovsk trials as "vicious and unfounded propaganda". The unit's activities, including human experimentation, were documented by the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials conducted by the Soviet Union in December 1949. Until the end of World War II, Japan operated a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit called Unit 731 in Harbin (now China). Subsequent scholars are split about the truth of the claims. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other American and allied government officials denounced the allegations as a hoax.
The story was covered by the worldwide press and led to a highly publicized international investigation in 1952. Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of American imperialism!"Īllegations that the United States military used biological weapons in the Korean War (June 1950 – July 1953) were raised by the governments of the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea.
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