China News Service, Beijing, August 31 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) In response to a South Korean association suing the US Army Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated at a regular press conference on the 31st that in the biological militarization activities and In terms of biological laboratory safety, the United States is the least open and most opaque country.
A reporter asked questions. According to reports, the Korean Fire Safety Education and Culture Association recently filed a lawsuit requesting the court to find that the US military in South Korea repeatedly transported highly toxic and hazardous substances to South Korea from 2017 to 2019 in violation of relevant South Korean laws. The defendant One is the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory of the US Army.
What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Wang Wenbin responded that the report mentioned that the US military had established an anthrax bacillus laboratory at the US military base in South Korea as early as September 1998, and had secretly carried out a biological and chemical weapons research project in South Korea since June 2013, the "Jupiter" project. .
After the "Jupiter" plan was exposed, not only did the U.S. military fail to disclose the real situation of the biological and chemical weapons experiments conducted at the bases of the U.S. military in South Korea, but the number of biochemical weapons samples shipped by the U.S. military to South Korea increased year by year. There are many laws in South Korea regarding the transportation and related matters of the above-mentioned substances. Experiments are strictly limited.
However, the US military stationed in South Korea ignored South Korean law and secretly transported these substances and conducted biochemical experiments in South Korea without any notification procedures, endangering the lives and health of the people.
Wang Wenbin said that the United States has always advocated "openness" and "transparency," but the United States is the least open and opaque country in terms of biomilitarization activities and the safety of biological laboratories.
In the past 20 years, the United States has been the only country to obstruct the negotiation of the verification protocol of the Biological Weapons Convention.
The United States has more than 200 biological laboratories worldwide.
"It has been reported that the distribution of these laboratories is highly consistent with the distribution of some dangerous diseases and viruses in recent years, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Zika virus and other spreading origins. The international community has repeatedly Calling on the U.S. to elaborate on the above-mentioned issues, but did not see any serious response from the U.S." Wang Wenbin said that not only this, the U.S. has also practiced double standards. On the one hand, it refused to open the Fort Detrick base and on the other hand, it requested an investigation into Wuhan. laboratory.
On the issue of whether American laboratories have engaged in research on the enhancement of virus functions, the United States has so far failed to provide truthful explanations to the international community.
Wang Wenbin pointed out that all these show that if it conflicts with the US's own interests, the US will not consider anything open and transparent at all. The so-called "openness" and "transparency" by the United States are just like "democracy" and "human rights." (over)