US sect claims to have implanted cloned embryo

SOUTH Korean prosecutors yesterday began investigating claims by an American sect it has successfully implanted a cloned human embryo in a woman.

Kwak Ji-hwa, a spokesman for the sect, Clonaid, said it made a Korean woman pregnant with a cloned embryo, with help from Korean company BioFusion Tech.

But Kwak refused to provide details about the surrogate mother, or further details about his organisation.