Chinese, Japanese Experts Work to Recover More Than 700 World War II-Era Chemical Munitions

Chinese and Japanese experts are working this month to recover Japanese World War II-era chemical weapons buried in a northeastern Chinese city, according to China Daily (see GSN, Aug. 27).

A team of 30 Japanese experts, along with 100 Chinese experts, is working to recover potentially more than 700 chemical munitions, located under a steel mill in the city of Ningan, China Daily reported. The effort began early this month and is expected to be competed by Sept. 28, according to Zhou Bolin, an expert at the Chinese Defense Ministry.

Weapons are set to be temporarily stored in Ningan before being destroyed. Tainted soil around the burial site is also expected to be removed (China Daily, Sept. 24). 

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