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The head of the United Nations has revealed his terror after North Korea claimed it was on the brink of nuclear war and in a “hair-trigger” situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The UN’s Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres,\u00a0called for an urgent push to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons to end the “madness”. And he suggested that AI potentially increases the threat of a nuclear apocalypse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking in New York yesterday (Tuesday, September 26), to the General Assembly on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons,\u00a0\u00a0Guterres said: “We must reverse course”.<\/p>\n
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Read more… <\/strong> Putin preparing to use ‘nuclear blackmail’ in terrifying warning to the West<\/strong><\/p>\n Kim Song, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, told the assembly:\u00a0“The Korean peninsula is in a hair-trigger situation with imminent danger of nuclear war”. He claimed this was down to\u00a0South Korea’s sycophantic and humiliating policy of depending on outside forces”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Guterres, however,\u00a0 told the assembly: “The real only way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons is to eliminate them.\u00a0 Any use of a nuclear weapon \u2014 anytime, anywhere and in any context \u2014 would unleash a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.<\/p>\n “This is not hyperbole.\u00a0 This is the timeless message of the\u00a0hibakusha<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\u00a0 To them \u2014 and to the world \u2014 I have pledged to do everything within my power to gather countries around the need to wipe these devices of destruction off the face of the earth.<\/p>\n “This is a matter of urgency.\u00a0 A worrisome new arms race is brewing.\u00a0 The number of nuclear weapons could rise for the first time in decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info<\/p>\n “Hard-won norms to prevent their use, spread and testing are being undermined.\u00a0 The global disarmament and non-proliferation architecture is eroding.\u00a0Nuclear arsenals are being modernized to make these weapons faster, more accurate and stealthier.\u00a0 Nuclear sabres are again being rattled.<\/p>\n “This is madness.\u00a0 We must reverse course.<\/p>\n “First \u2014 nuclear-weapon States must lead the way.\u00a0I call on them to meet their disarmament obligations, and commit to never use nuclear weapons under any circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Second \u2014 we need to reinforce and re-commit to the nuclear-disarmament-and-non-proliferation regime built over the decades.\u00a0 This includes the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.<\/p>\n Gutteres continued: “It also includes the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.\u00a0Though not yet in force, the Treaty remains a powerful testament of humanity\u2019s will to lift the shadow of nuclear annihilation from our world, once and for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n “In the name of all victims of nuclear testing, I call on all countries that have not yet ratified the Treaty to do so without delay, and for those States that possess nuclear weapons to ensure a moratorium on all nuclear testing.<\/p>\n “And third \u2014 we must redeploy the timeless tools of dialogue, diplomacy and negotiation to ease tensions and end the nuclear threat.\u00a0 This dialogue must extend to all categories of nuclear weapons, and it must address the increasing interplay between strategic and conventional weapons and the nexus between nuclear weapons and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Humans must always be in control of and responsible for any decision to use nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n “Disarmament and conflict prevention are at the heart of the recently launched policy brief on a ‘New Agenda for Peace’.\u00a0 The Agenda represents a fresh opportunity for the world to usher in a world free of nuclear weapons.\u00a0 I call on all Member States to stand with us in this essential cause.<\/p>\n “The world has spent too long under the shadow of nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Let\u2019s step back from the edge of disaster.\u00a0 Let\u2019s usher in a new era of peace for all people.\u00a0 Let\u2019s make history by consigning nuclear weapons to history.\u00a0 Thank you very much.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Kim-4980321.jpg?r=1695791024560\")
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