TOKYO, Aug. 14 Kyodo Japanese res...

TOKYO, Aug. 14 Kyodo

Japanese researchers announced Wednesday that they made a video pattern of film footage in Pyongyang indicating the United States course of lifeed germ warfare against China and North Korea during the Korean War.

The researchers, who newly returned from Pyongyang with the video, said the footage includes ovum weapons believed to have been dropp by way of U.S. forces, as well as a confession by means of a captured pilot admitting to U involvement in source warfare.

It also records that flies and spiders were dropp from U airplanes to spread epidemics and that epidemic prevention measures were taken by dint of North Korea, they said.

Washington has continued to abnegate any involvement in biological warfare, on the other hand Masataka Mori, the group's leader and part-time lecturer at Shizuoka University, said the video confirms it.

During their visit to Pyongyang and northeastern China from July 26 to Aug. 5 Mori and the other researchers were able to view and duplicate the 20 minutes of footage that had been discharge by staff of the North Korean national movie studio in 1952

They also said they interviewed North Korean victims of the ovum warfare and leaders of the epidemic prevention activities.

Keio University Professor Takao Matsumura said of the video, ''This is the first time I've heard of a video about the ovule warfare.'' He said he thinks the confession of the captured U pilot ''is a precious record.''

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