North Korea never has been capable of "devastating" the U.S. with biological weapons, you utter moron. Nor are they even close to having that capability now.
They can't do it with superbugs: "There is no known evidence that Pyongyang is working to engineer designer bugs, U.S. analysts say."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...f7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.43b39293f7f4
They can't do it with conventional biological agents either because the sheer size of the United States -- coupled with the difficulties of widely and effectively disseminating them -- takes "devastation" completely off the table. North Korea may pose a significant biological threat to parts of South Korea and our military on the battlefield, but is far less of a threat to CONUS.
Claims don't equal capability and the only nuclear test that might have been a hydrogen bomb was their September 3, 2017 test estimated at 250 kilotons. But even that's doubtful. First, because of the extreme difficulty and complexity of building one and second, because pure-fission bombs have been built with twice that yield. Currently, only five nations are confirmed to have tested staged thermonuclear weapons, and even Israel isn't one of them.
As usual you have it backwards. A high-altitude EMP strike which absolutely requires a missile is, by far, the biggest threat that the U.S. faces from North Korea. See report presented to the House that's linked to here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/c...ould-kill-90-of-all-americans/article/2637349
And what the hell do you know about what the people in the Pentagon think, you troll? You don't even live in the United States, let alone have the "inside scoop" on national security. Delete your account and try again.
Biological weapons in one form or another have been in use for hundreds of years in warfare. Think catapulted dead Bubonic Plague bodies when seiging a fortification during the Middle Ages. The estimated cost for terrorists to start a biological weapons program is about $200,000, given the availability of information and the relatively low cost of hardware needed.
China has about 1.3 billion reasons to discourage their border neighbor from getting “too happy” with biological weapons, as the release of infectious agents anywhere in the world would be likely to come back and haunt the Chinese.
