Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has given out a warning to ally North Korea against proclaiming war. Reuters revealed that Castro's comments came on Friday, April 5, 2013, and described current tensions on the Korean Peninsula as being one of the "gravest risks" for a nuclear holocaust since the Cuban Missile Crisis back in 1962.
Castro wrote in Cuban state media that he spoke as a friend to North Korea. Castro said the 30-year-old Kim Jong-un had helped North Korea show its technical prowess to the world, but now it was time to remember its duties to others.
North Korea is one of the last communist countries in world, along with Cuba, and it has been building up pressure by declaring war on South Korea. North Korea has threatened to stage a nuclear strike on the United States as well.
There are very few that believe the country will attack anyone at all. Fidel Castro has actually become an anti-nuclear advocate in recent years.
"Now that it has demonstrated its technical and scientific advances, we remind it of its duties to other countries who have been great friends and that it would not be just to forget that such a war would affect in a special way more than 70 percent of the world's population," said the 86-year-old, who turned Cuba communist after taking power in a 1959 revolution.
Castro called the present situation on the Korean Peninsula "incredible and absurd," but said "it has to do with one of the gravest risks of nuclear war since the Crisis of October (Cuban Missile Crisis), 50 years ago."
Fidel Castro helped stop a nuclear attack from happening on the United States many years ago. There is the hope that the words of Fidel Castro will be able to get through to North Korea and Kim-Jong-un this time around.
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