Nobel peace prize winner voices fears over North Korea

December 10, 2017 19:10

The winner of the 2017 Nobel peace prize, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, has voiced alarm about the extremely dangerous situation in North Korea.

We are seeing right now an extremely dangerous situation that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, Beatrice Fihn, the head of ICAN said shortly before receiving the award in Oslo.

But if you are worried about Donald Trump having nuclear weapons or Kim Jong-un, youre probably worried about nuclear weapons because you are recognising that deterrents are not always going to work, she added.

The US and North Korean leaders are just humans who have the control to end the world. Nobody should have that.

ICAN, a coalition of hundreds of NGOs worldwide, has worked for a treaty banning nuclear weapons, which was adopted in July by 122 countries.

Image: Leader of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow and Executive Director of ICAN Beatrice Fihn are seen at the City Hall on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN, in Oslo. Photograph: NTB Scanpix/TBerit Roald/Reuters

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