Fidel Castro Advises North Korea Against Going To War

The former leader of Cuba Fidel Castro has advised North Korea not to go to war with South Korea and not to launch a nuclear strike against the United States. Cuba and North Korea are allies but Fidel Castro believes a war on the Korean peninsula would result in a nuclear holocaust.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has been making repeated threats to wage war against South Korea and attack U.S territories in the pacific. There are some who believe the threats made by North Korea are just rhetoric. Others say that the young leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un has a hair trigger and wants to prove his military prowess by acts of war.

The retired president of Cuba, Fidel Castro made a statement to the Cuban State Media where he compared the crisis in Korea to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

"This is one of the gravest risks of nuclear war since the October Crisis in 1962 involving Cuba, 50 years ago."

In his statement Castro also told North Korea, "Now that you have demonstrated your technical and scientific advances, we remind you of your duty to the countries that have been your great friends, and it would not be fair to forget that such a war would affect ... more than 70 percent of the planet's population."

Castro also went after President Obama saying that the responsibility to prevent war rests as much on his shoulders as it does on North Korea's. Castro said if Obama did not try to prevent war he "would be buried by a flood of images that would present him as the most sinister figure in U.S. history. The duty to avoid (war) also belongs to him and the people of the United States."

Castro's words to North Korea were friendly and warm. Castro told the fellow communist nation Cuba would always be an ally to North Korea but referred to the threats of war as "incredible and absurd." Castro told North Korea a nuclear war would bring "terrible harm" and benefit no one.