Updated Nov.16,2001 19:13 KST

N.Korean Aided Bin Laden: AP Network News
A germ war specialist who looks like a North Korean has reportedly taught Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network how to use various weapons for bio terrorism, AP Network News reported Friday, citing a statement by an Afghan witness.

The Afghan, who had once been a security officer for the Taliban government said terrorists from all around the world taught al-Qaida how to use the germ weapons for Bin Laden's followers in North Eastern Afghanistan and among officers included non-Muslims who are likely North Koreans.

Earlier, the Department of State had insisted in a report titled 'Global Terrorism' released in 1999, that the North kept in touch with Bin Laden's terrorist network. The department has demanded that the North should provide information related with Bin Laden since September 11, when the terrorists attacked on America.

(Park Don-gyu, coeur@chosun.com )