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The head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the winner of the 2017 Nobel peace prize, has voiced alarm about the situation in North Korea. | |
“We are seeing right now an extremely dangerous situation that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable,” Beatrice Fihn said shortly before receiving the award in Oslo. | |
“If you are worried about Donald Trump having nuclear weapons or Kim Jong-un, you’re probably worried about nuclear weapons because you are recognising that deterrents are not always going to work,” she said. | |
The US and North Korean leaders “are just humans who have the control to end the world. Nobody should have that”. | |
Pyongyang has increased the number of its missile and nuclear tests in recent months, while exchanging bellicose threats with Trump, who has ordered a military show of force. | |
ICAN, a coalition of hundreds of NGOs worldwide, has worked for a treaty banning nuclear weapons, which was adopted in July by 122 countries. | ICAN, a coalition of hundreds of NGOs worldwide, has worked for a treaty banning nuclear weapons, which was adopted in July by 122 countries. |
Although historic, the text was weakened by the absence of the nine nuclear powers among the signatories. Only three countries, the Holy See, Guyana and Thailand, have so far ratified the treaty, which requires 50 ratifications to come into force. | Although historic, the text was weakened by the absence of the nine nuclear powers among the signatories. Only three countries, the Holy See, Guyana and Thailand, have so far ratified the treaty, which requires 50 ratifications to come into force. |
In an apparent snub to ICAN and the treaty, the three western nuclear powers – the US, France and Britain – will be represented by second-ranking diplomats rather than by their ambassadors at the Nobel ceremony, which represents a break with tradition. | |
Several survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, which killed more than 220,000 people 72 years ago, will attend the event. One of them, Setsuko Thurlow, will receive the prize on behalf of ICAN jointly with Fihn. |