Transcripts For ALJAZ Dirty Little Secrets 20240714

A sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people and for his family and for arabs and muslims and especially for the Palestinian People who witnessed how most he stood with them in the war theres no doubt that history will remember that as a day morsi was mounted after he was killed by the military he. Is the head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council which was the Main Organization advocating for morsi to be reinstated as president he says morsi his condition has deteriorated over the years. He was in solitary confinement he suffered from diabetes he lost sight in one and we made this public through the press conferences that we held as the Egyptian Revolutionary Council alongside with other human rights organizations and lawyers its something Human Rights Watch has pointed to we sent letters and met with policymakers and with agencies of the United Nations there was sympathy but fairly little action on the part of the International Community but more importantly no response from the egyptian regime which we hold responsible for whats happened to dr morsi responsibility goes to the highest level of the state to see himself to the Security Forces and the judiciary that is an all move the military they are all responsible for whats happening to political dissidents and today to egypts 1st democratically 1st democratically elected president. In turkey will hold funeral prayers for Mohamed Morsi on tuesday president ratchet typer and why it has paid his own personal tribute. In our eyes Mohamed Morsi is a martyr who lost his life while he fought for the cause he believed history will never forget the tyrants who put him in prison threaten them with the Death Penalty and caused his massive we formed a close friendship with him before he was a link to this president and preserved that afterwards morsi who was put on trial by a court step by the code ministration and simply asked him to death davis last breath in a courtroom and this is a symbol of the cruelty inflicted upon him and his people for years. And the u. S. Says its sending about a 1000 extra troops to the middle east the pentagon says its in response to irans hostile behavior in outspent hamsters hours after the u. S. Military released their pictures that it says shows Iranian Revolutionary guards removing an unexploded mine from a japanese and vessel it was one of 2 or oil tankers where there was an explosion last week and the gulf of oman. Suicide bombers have targeted a crowd watching a football match on television in northeastern nigeria killing at least 30 people 2 bombers detonated devices in the village of conjugal Officials Say at least 40 other people were wounded and taken to nearby hospitals. So dance protest leaders are calling for more rallies as a tense standoff continues with the military giunta on an investigation into the violent dispersal of their sit in demonstration in khartoum earlier this month more than 120 people were killed in the crackdown venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is imposing a tougher rules for anyone who wants to enter venezuela through colombia thousands have been crossing the border to buy food and medicine the president accuse the us of delivering aid to undermine venezuelas sovereignty 4 people have been shot at a rally for the n. B. A. Champion raptors and Toronto Canadian police say 2 people who were carrying firearms have been arrested after his fans ran from the scene at this stampede in city hall square tens of thousands of people were in the area when the shooting took place. So the headlines keep it on aljazeera more news to rewind is that next. Hello and welcome to rewind im Richelle Carey. Since we launched Al Jazeera English back in 2006 our library of Award Winning documentaries has been growing year by year so here on rewind you decided to revisit some of the most important of those stories once again today rewinding to 2010 and north korea for the past several months or koreas or to rate in relations with us and the administration and donald trump in particular have threatened to plunge the world into the darkness of a nuclear war earth koreas increasing military buildup and testing of missiles now presents an apparent threat to japan and beyond across the pacific as far as the United States president trumps belligerent response that even included the threat of overwhelming military action john yangs rhetoric is equally bellicose and though the regime claims that it needs a Nuclear Strike capability to deter the threat of u. S. Aggression there is history here as well there are north korean still living who have personal experience of American Bombing during the korean war nearly 70 years ago back in 2010 people in power travel to north korea to investigate claims that some of those bombs contained not high explosive but biological weapons insects deliberately infected with deadly diseases its a claim that the u. S. Has always deny but filmmaker tim tate had unique access to this extraordinary story traveling deep inside the country to talk to men who claim to be survivors an attack that america insists never happened heres dirty Little Secrets. Almost 60 years ago this peaceful lake was the scene of either a terrible crime. Or a cynical hoax. Each of these own is either a witness to the crime or a participant in that hoax. What happened or never happened here tonight. In 52 is the key to one of the most intractable International Disputes today. The korean war was the 1st armed confrontation of the cold. In 1906 the United States unilaterally divided korea along the 38th parallel. When in 1950 north Korean Forces backed by the army of communist china crossed the border to unify the country america persuaded the United Nations to support military action against what washington saw as the global threat of international compact. The fact that the furthest have invaded korea is a warning that there may be similar act of aggression in other parts of the word. Over the next 3 bloody years an estimated 2000000 soldiers died over may. At least 2000000 civilians were killed or wounded and millions more were made homeless. But early in 1952 north korea claimed that villages throughout the country was suffering unprecedented outbreaks of bubonic plague anthrax and typhus. Is accused the United States of bacteriological warfare dropping germ bombs containing insects shellfish and feathers infected with plague as well as anthrax and color. America angrily denied the claim. Than just released films lay bare the shocking truth behind communist charges of germ warfare in korea and ever since the germ warfare allegations have been dismissed as communist propaganda from an isolationist rogue state that is progress by the communist Propaganda Machine throughout the world. Today north korea is the most impenetrable state on the planet. Yet over the past 20 years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young secretive rulers. Hired by the i dont call us. Shows how was i not only saigon on a cent per cent of the total of us so one of the must. Now mari has persuaded p. R. Nyang to allow our cameras to follow him through his latest visit it is an unprecedented step foreign journalists are routinely banned from entering north korea we will be working under strict control told where and what we can film and accompanied by government officials at all times. Yet we will also be taken deep into the heart of this most hidden country to meet men who claim to have witnessed americas use of germ warfare firsthand. In the center of pyongyang the korean Army Maintains a vast Museum Dedicated to documenting its version of the war with america. Inside professor morey examines a room given over to what north korea claims to be direct evidence of germ warfare by the United States including specimen jars filled with flies mosquitoes and fleas all allegedly infected with deadly pathogens is it the has what the disease typhoid cause there are pest like this are heavy diseases injects like a small boy says into the insects any thoughts inside like this moans and dropped into the evidence its not. According to north korea american pilots dropped specially adapted bombs these carried no explosives but split open to release the infected insects which would then pass on the diseases to the local population so this is the joan jones promise it is id like to speak bombs they put some insects. I mean this 34 kinds of insects. C c in a separate projection room mari is given a private screening of what north korea claims is new skill shot in 1952. The footage appears to show masses of insects crawling on snow covered ground beside the bomb casings a highly unusual phenomenon. And also logic in your new. Concerto that isnt even any. And all songs i think that i didnt notice and. I dont know. But i could have any do you think i want out you know the rest of this but humans from which country were these insects were dropped by american pilots or placed here by north korean propagandists. Is this evidence of a war crime or is america claims merely crude propaganda you dont eat you want you to meet. Him and so they call it common density care are cut out of a sheet so will kill me i wished he was going to show hell miss things that are serving us sekai no. Court orders let the national. Committees and commissions that you know. Some of his in a campaign that new sewing room are sending the hoga in a quick start their. Cars had paid for your discharge and. The. Dawn of a pyongyang. At 7 am government sirens wake the city summoning its people to begin a new days work. Mori master tucker is leaving pyongyang and heading out into north koreas rural hinterland in search of people who claim to have witnessed and survived germ warfare. But the very nature of this country means that he is completely reliant on the p. R. Nyang government to provide his transport and to put forward his interviewees. On the outskirts of one g. A village 45 kilometers east of pyongyang 2 elderly farmers are waiting to meet him. You can chan been an toxic loss their fathers during the war both claim that an american plane dropped a german bomb close to the village. You know do your. Job. Has been to several you must call it scoble q will you be general need to bully. Has another. Bore hole in the. Danny in view limited to going to. You now in you. Mind youre making a very probably 27 tomorrow night. With your mate during the war captured american pilots made filmed confessions in which they admitted dropping bombs filled with infected insects on north korean villages might never be clean. I mean not many not. Only when your beloved will didnt see any or dont dont you donna youre wrong medicine or your. Kidney month old girl came in he prayed that sonia. Gandhi didnt see him and now you. To be there when i am more than there could. Be. Youre a prosecutor and im going. I have eyes in the arm of. Im going to do what is in the. Polaris had a new human the day here in monotone that i thought. Many asses to me me. Isnt that im the 2nd guy in one goalie i live in the one i wanted to but its a pain in your mind to walk there and. I guess you might say oh now were not going and doing gods will. In their filmed confessions the American Air Force officers expressed apparently genuine remorse for their actions can i go back and take my family and them alive or. How can i tell them me thanks but i am a criminal and i love you man. But when they returned home at the end of the war they all retracted their confessions. So where does the truth lie for professor mori at least the north korean witnesses are the more convincing there are thousands of. Them in a code of mess and its gonna. Kokanee is own static kill any time of the. Night but this is also when economists. Yeah i believe im a judge in sox terminal kinetic and you talk to sawgrass and it over to him not in any court. Mores mission is taking him deeper into north koreas a rural hinterland and into the areas most heavily bombed during the war. Here matter and village in the east of the country he meets shake young stock in 152. 00 he was in his final year at school how. Can we get to that in all building down from hong kong you knew reasonable water. To think and when are you going to do but again but if you. Are to me think that it. Is a. Apologizing to the. Camera monitor the needs of the road in a death are going to get. More again. In march 952 this peaceful rural area was heavily bombed by the us air force. By then the war ground to a stalemate and. American military chiefs had already dropped thousands of tons of napalm and were considering a Nuclear Strike. But the people of maton village claimed to have been the victims of a very different weapon my own. He going to go below could that mean he told me he wouldnt even. Think. You could put it in there. Who would dare make it something you could look in servants he. Calmly i would whom you would thing then there. Would be wooers havent they so. You didnt book me can you could tell me you dont have or do need the why will you take it in the. Long cause. If you get some that i. Dont know i know a lot of this. Could be home since you. According to the villages within days many of them fell sick and began to die the symptoms apparently consistent with bubonic plague a disease with no recent history in korea. Theyre already killing your old one. Also one of the people who. Ordered 100 more normal for parking people from people who didnt know what hard work i thought would hold on im not sure how to last long. Term though. Im going to law. Theres all. The time to work through. Who want to rule were not talking about right awful. Special car to crush a lot. Of what. They be or can just sign me so i can send that here yet they still have. The music on the play came with us no. No no no no its not up. So you are going to know that i put you on with us now that i. To clearly state this says when he isnt. But mari knows that testimony from north korean citizens will not be enough to convince a skeptical world that the United States used germ warfare in korea says your hire staff so i just saying no choice are a honey he i going to need in a creditable dollar he joins. Us. In fact within months of the allegations being made the North Koreans did invite an International Commission to visit the country. Composed of scientists from france italy sweden the soviet union and brazil and led by a distinguished if left leaning british embryologist it toured the affected areas interviewed the sick and the dying and carried out a Detailed Analysis of their infections. The commissions 600. 00 page report included results of postmortems on the victims these identified plague typhoid cholera and anthrax. It concluded the germ warfare had been deployed exactly as the North Koreans claimed but despite its wealth of Scientific Evidence it was dismissed by america as communist this information. Moment excellent doesnt have anything i got changed and as you know i have you. Know. I send. My. Whole attitude to what are you doing. Today at the 38th parallel Korea Remains divided north and south korea remain technically at war every hour of every day the Border Guards square up to each other across the symbolic dividing line under the constant gaze of American Forces. But because search for information about biological warfare in korea will take him far away from this disputed border. Carbon northeastern china. In the 1930 s. And 1940 s. Japan occupied this part of china. Inside these brick buildings a division of the Imperial Japanese army unit 731 carried out grotesque human experiments as a result japan became the 1st country ever to perfect the technology of biological warfare. Agents in this. City and. Said early. On the. Fade in. Color to mean. The trash the japanese experiments exposed to bare living. Victims insects or shellfish infected with plague anthrax and cholera while weapons experts created unique bombs to deliver these pathogens to their target during world war 2 japan dropped thousands of these bombs throughout northern china infecting towns and villages with plague cholera anthrax and typhoid. And there for. The powerful that they dont already unit 731 was run by japanese scientists and led by general sharon. Despite clear evidence that unit 731 used biological warfare on such an industrial scale after the war now the shira she nor the leaders of his germ weapons team was ever prosecuted for war crimes or to say or what they. Say youll saw on the air. That it would read this on all their hotel we article. All. Keys off. Their story and they end all hurt all weather for so. The techniques and the germs used by unit 731 match exactly the details of north koreas claims of american biological warfare and today chinese officials at least a convinced that there was a link between the 2 may say your wording and there was. Show you all the huge deals. Yet the un would aid it should. Just ship. For professor mari the narrative he has heard amid the ruins of unit 731 is deeply shocked. When i get older snails or they can i you know or she she dont know as a young man as in japan come later when us now. Who hunted us there. By. Some of your kind us had some english continuous. But i see. No. Nonsense that i know of. Someone of another. Who says ones i saw last fall its not the particle to knuckle their knee so no its another thing. How could he she escaped justice did america really use his Pioneering Technology to wage biological warfare in korea. Or were the convincingly detailed confessions of American Air Force pilots actually extract it under communist pressure. The truth may lie in another country thousands of miles from here. Capturing a moment in time. Snapshots of other lives. Other stories. Provided glimpse into someone elses world. Inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers and the front lines i feel that i know if i have the data to prove. Witness on aljazeera in morocco unregistered an underage marriages have caused problems especially for women and children ive been trying for years to get my daughter legally recognised by her father pressure from lobby groups has led to changes to the madonna and the family code giving women greater rights in marriage more keeping the family at heart but now the divorce rate has increased a lot mainly with up occasions made by wives. Aljazeera world. After decades of being programmed with instructions data hungry computers can now learn on their own identifying patterns and predicting Human Behavior Artificial Intelligence could monitor our movement. And decide on our future the big picture codes of the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine part to on aljazeera. And we shall carry in doha these are the top stories on al jazeera egypts 1st democratically elected president has died after a hot thing in court while on trial for espionage charges Egyptian State t. V. Says Mohamed Morsi had a heart attack the 67 year old Muslim Brotherhood leader had been imprisoned since 2013 when he was toppled after less than a year in office the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement that it held current president of the tile sisi and his government responsible for what they call the planned criminal killing of morsi the brotherhood secretary general has told aljazeera that he fears Security Forces will bury morsi in cairo late at night denying him a proper funeral listen to them on the head of the real me home has even less support this is a sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people and for his family and for arabs and muslims and especially for the Palestinian People who witnessed how most he stood with them in the will theres no doubt that history will remember that them as if they moved he was martyred after he was killed by the military coup. And the u. S. Says its sending about 1000. 00 extra troops to the middle east the pentagon says its in response to irans hostile behavior the announcement comes just hours after the u. S. Military released new pictures that it says shows running revolutionary guards removing an unexploded mine from a japanese own vessel it was one of the 2 or oil tankers where there was an explosion last week irans military has night involvement and warned it could block the strategic strait of hormuz if it decided to try and go as long as no one causes problems for the security of the straits of hormuz we will preserve its security and as long as the islamic republics oil is exported the only others will be securely exported to more home time if we decide to block the straits of hormuz well do it in a way that even a drop of oil went past the street says the bombers have targeted a crowd watching a football match on television in northeastern nigeria killing at least 30 people to buy. Setted devices in the village of Officials Say at least 40 other people were wounded. Protest leaders are calling for more rallies as a tense standoff continues with the military shown to on an investigation into the violent dispersal of their sit in demonstration in khartoum earlier this month. And israel and president. We will have that story for you shortly keep right here on aljazeera more news to come next. November 2009 and the president of the United States issues a stern warning to north korea over its nuclear program. North korea behaves in a provocative fashion. Then. Is willing to return to talks. Talks for a while and then leaves the talks seeking further concessions and there is never actually any progress on the core issues. While in pyongyang north korean officials insist that talk about Nuclear Weapons depends on resolution of the 58 year old claims that america used biological warfare in the korean war. Be. Coming on. You when he took you money. As you told you didnt care you days or who were not going to go door to. Men would he. Go power in which your uncle. Always had not and. But while professor moreys inquiries continue in north korea the search for the truth about whether america did use biological weapons there moves halfway around the world. In the u. S. National archives just outside washington d. C. 2 documents reveal a disturbing relationship between america and she is she the mastermind behind japans biological Warfare Program unit 731. They show that after the war the American Military intelligence shielded the leaders of unit 731 from war crimes trials in return for their expertise in advancing americas then embryonic germ warfare plants information procured will have the greatest value in future development of the u. S. B. W. Program so we decided that were going to trade in sort of of deal. We trade issues nonprosecution for his cigarettes which he smuggle out arm and so the deal is made the trunks of of raw data arrive and in a sense weve sold our souls because we need to know that they were able to develop weapons that were capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people these once top secret documents reveal that to speed its program the United States paid ishi and his top germ warfare scientists handsomely for their cooperation they were assisted by direct payments payments in kind food miscellaneous gift items entertained. From 1947 behind this security fence at fort dietrich in maryland the u. S. Army began work to expand issues use of insects to deliver bubonic plague anthrax cholera and typhus not very far from any. One in historic Frederick Maryland and other biological warfare laboratories. Were working on Delivery Systems from planes and from missiles and from other paratus of both fleas but primarily mosquitoes it was a very active program a well funded program a program in which we in fact were testing some of these Delivery Systems clowder biological warfare agent can be generated so successful was fort dietrich in perfecting the technology of biological warfare that in the late 1951 as American Forces were bogged down in korea the u. S. Joint chiefs of staff issued a top secret order to begin testing germ weapons on the battlefield large scale field tests should be conducted to determine the effectiveness of specific b. W. Agents under operational conditions. Or you know at the time america was fighting only one moon korea if the order by the joint chiefs of staff was a bait and there was only one battlefield where biological weapons could be tested. And video testimony given as he was dying by a japanese technician who worked to unit 731 suggests that these trials may have been actively assisted by the original masterminds of biological warfare to her daughters is over there hes only. Solo. Doesnt take being conned the only. One who isnt is who is a liar. And shes on governors on board that does our doors are new. To us is our nature to be so. According to north korea america began dropping bombs filled with infected insects in january 952 near the end of the korean winter. In support it cites what it claims is contemporary newsreel footage showing scientists examining insects surrounding the remains of bombs on snow covered ground like a bomb casing from a standard leaflet bomb that was used to deliver pamphlets and that sort of information we showed this film to entomologist and biological warfare expert professor Geoffrey Lockwood its really difficult to say what that is theres theres no scale so i cant tell what the size of those insights are given that appears to be snow i would guess that of the big they could be Something Like stone flies crawling around on the snout but for professor lockwood the problem is not with the insects the bombs or the snow its with the ferocity of the film itself it has to be almost certain that what were seeing here is a a recreate of what the koreans saw or claim to have seen the possibility of getting a camera to film crew to an area where insects at this sort of density have been dispersed in time to actually film that converges on 0 so what were seeing is what they said they saw and this is probably as close as they can come to that does that necessarily mean that it didnt have. No it doesnt it doesnt mean that it didnt happen its simply that this is not evidence that it did happen so this is is is i would gather this is their attempt to simulate the sorts of things that they that they saw in 152. 00 United States representatives took to the floor of the United Nations it is no exaggeration to say. Problem is the group is run now from the world they denounced the north korean evidence as a clumsy fake and a lie. But in doing so they told their own lies undermining the credibility of all american denials of biological warfare some of the denial was just absurd almost laughable when when for instance one particular u. S. Official says we did not have any development of insight vector Disease Research in the United States at that time its simply an absurd and bald faced deception its a lie working up to functions against Chemical Biological and radiological warfare is the responsibility of the Army Chemical corps were insect dropped over north korea and parts of china my sense is that there were incidents that involved. Probably quite limited but very very important u. S. Testing of biological materials and how will the issue ever be laid to rest once for all i dont know of the issue will be later i mean how would it be is with the smoking gun with with with definitive testimony from a u. S. Official who was involved in the program and can say yes we did it. The key to the mystery may lie with the american at force offices who originally confessed to dropping jumbo its. Very few a still alive today. But we tracked down one of the survivors to this peaceful Senior Citizens Community Near houston texas. Kenneth enoch is 85 years old today he enjoys a comfortable retirement sharing wartime memories with his. Wife these are supposed to be bombs over here is that right. I think its this man under given food. But from 1950 on wood left tenant can you see milk was another gauge on u. S. Air force b. 26 Bombing Missions over north korea all but one or 2 most missions we flew at night i favorite target was trains we were like trains you know sometimes that one would almost hit the engine. And actually if we drop napalm on the engine you know to try and discourage them i guess it was the you could feel the napalm go off on january the 13th 952. 00 after 53. 00 night Bombing Missions the next plane was shot down and he bailed out over north korean territory unleaded and the parachute spilled and i found a corner of a rice paddy. And it was snowy there were quite a bit of snow want to go and i saw a dark spot over there on the corner and so i thought well thats a good place for me to be but in less than an hour Kenneth Enoch was captured by north korean and chinese soldiers it was the morning at this 27th birthday they mark me down a house and i had a place to sit. And they had a guard there and they handed me a piece of paper in english. Said. Dont worry about it all that were going to send any anyway you know they dont want to trouble for awhile least but anyway. So i was. Left an empty knock would be held captive in north korea for the next 20 months but what happened to him and what he did during his time as a prisoner of war would prove to be one of the most bitterly disputed pieces of evidence in the allegations of american biological warfare. That. There. Was. That. There. On april the 1st 952 kennedy naca made a detailed confession that he had taken part in a series of biological warfare missions. On film and over 8 closely written pages left hannity not described his biological weapons instructions. Or the techniques of dropping germ bombs that they have. Never read but. They and the code word assigned to log them on his return 3. Or. Ordinary. In all 36 American Air Force officers made written or filmed confessions of dropping germ bombs while in captivity. But when they were sent back home at the end of the war the Us Department of defense woman them that they could be brought before Courts Martial to face Treason Charges subsequently in response to identical questions each officer made a carefully worded retraction just released films lay bare the shocking truth behind communist charges or germ warfare in korea and the socalled confessions of captured u. S. Airmen each retraction was filmed by military cameras and handed to Television News reel companies with the unit it is. Going to. But you have been there but the basic germ warfare bombing over not very good care to make a statement regarding the. If left in and Kenneth Enochs retraction was typical. Movie wire recording interviews. Were forced upon me that johnny. Said that due to my for him or due to my confession which was absolutely. In my confession i would now be branded by the people of the world as in fact a war criminal even scrap the method used by the funding of. It to your statement. Yesterday they use both physical and mental pressure they put me around. Me attention for a long period. Forced me to sit at attention. Finally i could see that there was no alternative insanity or death they may threaten me and threaten me again that i should never leave alive if i didnt cooperate but nearly 60 years later kenny enoch now denies he was ill treated by his captors want to write. These very brutal thoughts no no no no no. No no no. But here i lay there one time they had me and i did the stay in the same place all the time and i cant recall one particular thing but. Maybe maybe they wanted to move somebody else you know how whatever they do so i got transferred to another building another house not home and it was cold and the so my room wasnt quite as big but it was it was all i needed you know. But they came with because it was so cold they came with. A pot full of charcoal you know lay it. And they put it in the room to keep me warm the 2nd reason flight left tenant he not gay for making his confession was mental pressure also forced to read their propaganda. Make favorable comment on it that is their their russian publications and so on on communism today once again his story changes try and talk to let you. Know if you want to be that really hurts. You know i mean. I dont think so for dockery they had all kind of books or if you want to go i guess and if you bought one you didnt like you know it just over here so why then did he make such a detailed confession today he claims that it was a deliberate deception. For days false and anything else i could think of he says that he booby trapped the document giving his fellow crew members the names of american cartoon characters there was a fellow named dick tracy dick tracy you know dick tracy over there yeah Richard Tracy what. You know and i was going to put a junior in there to you know what were doing here tracy. Tell you only does this make you always like yeah. But they were there i wanted them to be recognizable so i think that tracy and jr that would have been great except that. You know you cant put too many people on one of them or its worse it would have been a real dandy probably would have had a president from where. The difficulty with this story is that many of the dates and places detailed in kennedy knox confession have since been confirmed as accurate. The only mention of anything approaching a cartoon character is a passing reference to his gunnery officer sergeant tracy. And then nearly 60 years on kenneth iraq seems to make at least a partial admission that the United States did deploy bacteriological weapons 1st of all i think you have to understand what what this. Biological warfare or whatever or quark is a pretty big field and its health what youve got specialists and evil doctors and all of that nonsense but but theres the people who deal and theyre dont have to go high and so as fairies we deal for them you know but they send you send it when you nevertheless he still denies that he personally played any part in the affair i thought what you were as you know i dont know were the same errors fly you know i was just a. Passenger. Official records of bombing raids over north korea held in the u. S. National archives one way to clear up the confusion about Kenneth Enochs confession and subsequent retraction would be to examine the flight logs for his missions over korea. But they were removed from the files by the us air force on march the 23rd 19522 months after he was captured and one week before he made his written confession and after the war the us military imposed a top secret classification on all documents relating to biological warfare in the far east. Many of the flight records for korea have never been released. You. Also know the dangers you. Will show. Us whether come up with a lot going on in a committee someone you. Wish is used in the. Old order new kernel or. Each time if you use an ice age just there definitely needs. More political analysts until now they can easily do the quick analysis no jew or not just look at. Washington remembers the korean war very differently to pyongyang. The United States still on as its military men and women as heroes who fought on behalf of the free world to hold back the march of International Communism and yet when we asked both the department of defense and the state department for filmed interviews to discuss the allegations of americas biological Warfare Program both refused. They also declined to respond to 10 specific questions about north koreas claims. Instead a Government Spokesperson issued a 2 line statement describing the allegations as baseless and the disinfo Mission Campaign that refuses to die. Of just. One thing is clear. Until those allegations are laid to rest. And americas innocence or culpability is established beyond doubt perhaps by an independent inquiry. One of the most enduring cold war mysteries will continue to haunt its relationship. With the worlds most secretive state. Dirty Little Secrets from 2010 a persuasive story but one that has been consistently denied by every American Administration for more than 60 years and north korea though this story contributes to a profound suspicion at the United States and its intentions and Southeast Asia im joined now from u. K. By professor hazel smith a korea expert from London School of oriental and African Studies professor thank you so much for joining us so if all of this happened with you know deadly insects biological weapons if all this happened it was more than 60 years ago but having said that is this still a very real live issue for North Koreans now the truth is about the korean war is that it was a very dirty war on all sides there atrocities by the North Koreans by the South Koreans there were many many People Killed and many many orphans and many maimed so the whole of the war still remains controversial particularly for North Koreans and for South Koreans because theyve still got family members that have split since not 53 once when the war ended theres been no communication between the 2 sides so the issues about alleged germ warfare a part and parcel of the discourse which takes place in north korea this is a controversial topic at the time in the 1950 s. Remains controversial now this story no smoking gun evidence this to took place but it forms part of the official discourse it doesnt however form part of the day to day discussions of North Koreans i lived and worked in north korea for 2 years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and. Clinics and. Talked to lots and lots of different people open. Never raised once as an issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were raised of course things like the fact that there were so many men killed in the 1950 s. In the war that there were disproportionate amounts of women left alive today for a brief moment there was a slight deescalation but obviously the tension is still there how do you see things playing out on the Korean Peninsula well there are different objectives the North Koreans want to preserve Regime Security which for them means both Territorial Defense for prevention of military intervention from the outside but also security for the current government and for those in power it saw what happened in iraq to Saddam Hussein and in libya to gadhafi and their argument is that if those countries had maintained Nuclear Weapons program or similar sorts of programs they wouldnt have been vulnerable to invasion from the United States and others although whats encouraging is with south korea north korea after all the heart of the matter on the Korean Peninsula at least talking to each other now in 2080 in a way that they havent been for 2 or 3 years there are some diplomatic channels which will at least at this stage allow for talks on more sensitive issues but there is a long long way to go before we can see an end to these conflicts thank you professor hazel smith for joining us and that is it from us to check out the rewind page at aljazeera dot com for more films from the series irish al carry thank you for joining us see you again sir. Thank you. Hello there were expecting some more very wet weather for parts of north america for a look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud here of a texas and then that stretches all the way up towards the eastern parts of canada this is given us some heavy downpours already theres plenty more still to come as we head through the next few days but while it is raining heavily in the east in the west its fine and settled say for seattle a maximum around 19 and force in l. A. Will be getting to around 22. 00 or 23. 00 i mean further towards the south of this plenty of showers over the central americas now and also sunshine but want to rather have to downpours eva parts of cuba and then some more persistent rains at times over parts of mexico and stretching all the way down through panama and into colombia for some of us here it doesnt fairly wet its also be very wet for some of us over parts of argentina recently as well but that weather system responsible is now beginning to pull away towards the east and behind it will drag up a lot of wind from the south so it wont be warm for many of us here a maximum temperature in what is already is just a 14 degrees at best as we head through wednesday that cloud will still retraining its feet further north they will still see some cloud a few showers every possible and through paraguayan as well so a maximum in asuncion overall the disappointing 20 degrees towards the west that we count in santiago and will be at 17. 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