North Korea alleged assassination by a weapon of mass destruction
IF SPREAD on a battlefield or used against a population, the nerve agent VX would be terrifyingly deadly. A liter of the substance contains enough lethal doses, theoretically, to kill 1 million people. Less than 10 milligrams — a small drop on the skin — can kill a grown man. It has no other purpose than being an instrument of death. This is one reason most of the world has banned what is truly a weapon of mass destruction.
This is also one reason it is so monstrous that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his coterie of brutalists may have used VX to murder his half-brother Kim Jong Nam, while he was waiting to board a plane in an international airport in Malaysia. The killing, captured on surveillance video, displays the coldblooded mentality of Pyongyang’s young dictator, who has cut down relatives, colleagues and anyone else who might threaten him, while confining hundreds of thousands of people in bleak prison camps and building nuclear and missile forces to threaten the world.
Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/north-korea-alleged-assassination-by-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/2017/02/24/46692432-facb-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html?utm_term=.4125bf6ce939
I heard a talking head remark about how this VX could be put on a missile head and be extremely dangerous. The first paragraph vaguely touches on that notion.
