Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro stressed the need to prevent a war from taking place in the Korean peninsula, a situation he described as incredible and absurd for a region with nearly 5 out of all 7 billion inhabitants of the world.

It is one of the most serious nuclear war risks after the October 1962 missile crisis that involved Cuba, Fidel noted.

The Cuban Revolution leader recalled the 1950 war in Korea claimed millions of lives, just five years after two atomic bombs were dropped over the defenseless Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagassaaki killing and affecting with radioactivity hundreds of millions of people in just few minutes.

Fidel said that by that time, US General Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic weapons against the Democratic Republic of Korea, but Harry Truman did not allow him to do so.

The People’s Republic of China reportedly lost one million brave soldiers in the attempt to prevent an enemy army from occupying its borders with Korea. The Soviet Union, on its part, provided weapons, air backup, technical and economic assistance, Fidel said and recalled that he had the honor of meeting Kim Il Sung, whom he described as a historic and noticeably valiant and revolutionary figure.

In his article, the Cuban leader says that if a war breaks out in that region, the Korean people on both sides will be terribly sacrificed, with no benefits at all for either of the two countries. The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea was always friendly towards Cuba, as Cuba has always behaved and will continue to behave towards that nation, he said.

Once they have showed their technical and scientific advancement, we remind them of their duties with the countries that have been their close friends; it would not be fair disregarding the fact that such a war would particularly affect over 70 percent of the world population, Fidel pointed out.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution stressed that if a conflict of that nature broke out in that region, the government led by Barack Obama, in his second term of office, would be buried by a tsunami of images depicting him as the most sinister figure of US history, and he concluded his article by saying that also Obama and the US people have the duty to avoid such a conflict.

Source: Radio Havana Cuba