Probably only their "selected" leadership is retarded and highly compromised just like our "selected" leadership.

I can't imagine any population, given the choice of biolabs in my back yard with highly contagious man made germ agents present on site (intended for genociding a future unspecified enemy at some unknown nonspecific date and place) bringing a constant risk of only being one inattentive lab accident / leak away from harming/killing the local population of the nation, would be saying yes sign me up for that one. But self serving and compromised leadership most certainly would push this onto their own population for a couple shekels of local currency and/ or to prevent their own malfeasance from being made public.