Reflections
of Fidel
(Taken from (CubaDebate)
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 Ruz
April 4, 2013
11:12 p.m.
Granma.cu
