North Korea on Monday invited every member of the U.S. Congress to inspect the Pyongyang Bio-Technical Institute.
“Come here right now, with all the 535 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as the imbecile secretaries and deputy secretaries of the government who have made their voices hoarse screaming for new sanctions,” said a spokesman of the North’s National Defense Commission, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had recently toured the Institute himself; state-run media released photographs of the visit last month. Officially, the facility makes pesticides for farming. But the pictures—as the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ Melissa Hanman noted in a damning and recently-released report—suggest something far more sinister: a government-run bioweapons factory. In releasing the images, it is possible the regime intentionally disclosed its ability to make anthrax.
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