Beijing, October 09: Beijing is suspecting an accidental release of a deadly nerve gas in North Korea, after detecting the substance at the border of its southern neighbor.
China’s military has detected the hazardous Sarin (GB) gas in Liaoning province on two occasions, Japanese Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Thursday.
Following the detections, last November and this February, the military increased its surveillance activities in the area, the paper said citing anonymous sources in the Chinese military.
Sarin, dubbed GB by NATO, was discovered in 1939 in Germany. The use of the substance was last reported in 2004 by militants in Iraq.
China suspects that the gas was released as a result of accidents during some experiments in North Korea.
According to the paper, Beijing has detected 0.015-0.03 micrograms of the gas per cubic meter in the areas in question.
—–Agencies