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Article: Skepticism over gas tests Seoul to await probe after report on North
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- International Herald Tribune
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- February 3, 2004
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Samuel Len
International Herald Tribune
02-03-2004
Voicing skepticism about a documentary program by the British Broadcasting Corp. that said North Korea was using humans to test biological and chemical weapons, the South Korean government said Monday that it would have to investigate before drawing any conclusions. According to the BBC documentary, ''Access to Evil,'' North Korea is testing experimental gas chambers and biological and chemical weapons on political prisoners. ''We have no official comment on whether humans were used for tests,'' said a spokeswoman for South Korea's Unification Ministry, which is in charge of dealing with North Korea. ''From what we have read about the ...