Germ Research Institute
The Germ Research Institute of the Armed Forces Ministry is responsible for developing biological weapons.
North Korea's bacteriological weapons-related organizations include
- Kim Il-song University
- Pyongyang Medical College,
- Korean Workers Party Central Biology Institute
- Institute of Microbiological Diseases, Pyongsong Academy of Science
- Microbiology Institute, Academy of Medical Science
- Central Sanitary Quarantine Institute, Ministry of Public Health [germ vaccination institute]
- Pyongyang Military Medical College
- Bacterium Research Institute, Second Academy of Natural Sciences
- National Defense Research Institute and Medical Academy (NDRIMA)
- Medical Institute, Academy of Defense Sciences
- Onjong-ni[?] Songch'on County, South P'yongan Province [large-scale underground germ research institute ]
- preventive military medical unit [not otherwise unidentified]
- No. 25 [25 February?] Plant, Chongju, North P'yongan Province (BW agent production facility)
- Munch'on, Kangwon Province [200-ton annual capacity agar growth media plant]
The work done at the National Defense Research Institute and Medical Academy (NDRIMA) included studies of disease pathogens such as anthrax, cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, yellow fever and others.
