South Korea: The bombshell report by professors Jeffrey D. Sachs and Neil L. Harrison, which was published in May 2022 by the peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, appears to be the source of Pyongyang's assumptions regarding Washington's potential involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic (PNAS).
On May 27, Sachs and Harrison published an opinion piece for Project Syndicate in which they claimed that US authorities had obstructed investigations into the potential contributions of US scientific research institutions to the COVID pandemic. The professors insisted that independent investigations should be conducted "not only into the outbreak in Wuhan, China, but also into the relevant US scientific research, international outreach, and technology licencing in the lead-up to the pandemic," adding that "US culpability is almost certain" if the coronavirus did indeed originate from a lab.
The full story of the outbreak "might involve America's role in researching coronaviruses and in sharing its biotechnology with others around the world," claim Sachs and Harrison. According to the professors, US researchers working on coronaviruses similar to SARS "regularly create and test dangerous novel variants" in order to create drugs and vaccines to combat them. These studies, also known as "gain-of-function" research, have been carried out for many years, raising worries that they may one day accidentally cause an outbreak or fall into the wrong hands, the scholars said.
A War Tool or an Accidental Leak?
Over the past few years, fears have been raised in Russia and China due to American experiments involving viruses and harmful pathogens. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called attention to a "dense network" of US biolabs that are "along the perimeter of the Russian Federation and close to Chinese borders" on May 13, 2020.
Beijing urged Washington to release details about the operations of at least 360 biolabs around the world, most of which are likely run by the US, earlier this year. Since 2001, a number of nations, including China, Russia, and the United States, have pushed for the establishment of a verification mechanism under the auspices of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Bacteriological (Biological), and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction in order to guarantee global biosafety. But according to Lavrov, the US has been "about the only country" to categorically oppose this idea for the past 20 years.
Long before Sachs and Harrison did, the American publisher hypothesised that the US might be to blame for the COVID outbreak. Furthermore, Unz does not rule out the possibility that "elements of [the US] national security establishment, though without the direct knowledge or authorization of President Donald Trump" used the pathogen as a deliberate biowarfare tool against China and possibly Iran.
There are many unanswered questions regarding the mysterious pandemic that is thought to have originated in Wuhan, China's Huanan Seafood Market. For instance, since neither a COVID-19 "patient zero" nor a "guilty bat" have been discovered, CBS News reports that SARS-CoV-2 may have been spreading among people prior to the late 2019 Wuhan outbreak.
Pentagon's Biowarfare History
One must admit that Washington is not a rookie when it comes to biological warfare, despite the fact that the Pentagon's alleged involvement in the COVID outbreak has not yet been investigated and supported by solid evidence. During the Korean War (1950–1953) and against China, the US was charged with using germ weapons, according to the testimony of at least 38 US military pilots. In August 2021, Xinhua cited historians and witnesses who described how the Pentagon dispersed dozens of species of deadly insects and germs in civilian areas of China and Korea using germ bombs.
In addition, Havana accused the Pentagon of causing an artificial outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in 1971 that killed 500,000 animals, caused significant economic harm to the island nation, and infected 345,000 people in Cuba with dengue fever in 1981. The claims were refuted by the US Department of Defense.
The Pentagon's recent experiments with highly contagious pathogens in Ukraine have come to light thanks to a recent review of cases from the US history of biological warfare by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which also looked at a vast collection of extremely sensitive documents. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) division of the Pentagon allegedly operated a network of biological laboratories in Ukraine with the intention of harming Russia's population and economy.
Unz states, "I'm aware of the public claims made by the Russian Ministry of Defense regarding the Pentagon's involvement in Ukrainian biolabs and the planning of potential biowarfare attacks against Russia. "I don't have any particular expertise on this matter, but [Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland's] apparent public admission during a US Senate hearing convinced me that there was a high likelihood that these Russian accusations were true."
According to Unz, "American military preparations for biowarfare attacks against Russia dramatically increase the likelihood that similar preparations had been made against China and Iran, and perhaps even carried out by rogue elements of the Trump Administration." The Pentagon's overseas biowarfare labs and the US government's covert biological programmes have raised more questions, but western mainstream media continue to largely ignore and suppress the issue.
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