Originally published in 2013
A few days ago I mentioned
the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life
emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new
discoveries demonstrate something else.
This is not to confuse
intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental
forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago.
A virtually infinite number
of life forms exist. In the sophisticated work of the world’s most
eminent scientists the idea has already been conceived of reproducing
the sounds which followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took
place more than 13.7 billion years ago.
This introduction would be
too extensive if it was not to explain the gravity of an event as
unbelievable and absurd as the situation created in the Korean
Peninsula, within a geographic area containing close to five billion of
the seven billion persons currently inhabiting the planet.
This is about one of the most serious dangers of nuclear war since the October Crisis around Cuba in 1962, 50 years ago.
In 1950, a war was
unleashed there [the Korean Peninsula] which cost millions of lives. It
came barely five years after two atomic bombs were exploded over the
defenseless cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which, in a matter of
seconds, killed and irradiated hundreds of thousands of people.
General Douglas MacArthur
wanted to utilize atomic weapons against the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea. Not even Harry Truman allowed that.
It has been affirmed that
the People’s Republic of China lost one million valiant soldiers in
order to prevent the installation of an enemy army on that country’s
border with its homeland. For its part, the Soviet army provided
weapons, air support, technological and economic aid.
I had the honor of meeting Kim Il Sung, a historic figure, notably courageous and revolutionary.
If war breaks out there,
the peoples of both parts of the Peninsula will be terribly sacrificed,
without benefit to all or either of them. The Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea was always friendly with Cuba, as Cuba has always been
and will continue to be with her.
Now that the country has
demonstrated its technical and scientific achievements, we remind her of
her duties to the countries which have been her great friends, and it
would be unjust to forget that such a war would particularly affect more
than 70% of the population of the planet.
If a conflict of that
nature should break out there, the government of Barack Obama in his
second mandate would be buried in a deluge of images which would present
him as the most sinister character in the history of the United States.
The duty of avoiding war is also his and that of the people of the
United States.
Fidel Castro RuzApril 4, 2013
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