Statement on North Korea’s Nuclear Test: A call for an Anti-war, Anti-U.S, Nuclear Disarmament Movement

Opposing war and violence on the Korean Peninsula and around the world, in the name of all people who wish for peace and democracy, we assert the following:

1. We condemn the hypocrisy of the United Nations’ sanctions against North Korea and the real threat posed by the United States’ nuclear hegemony.

The majority of UN Security Council members including the U.S. have carried out fearful and deadly nuclear tests and have thousands of nuclear weapons. To present, the U.S. has carried out 1,127 nuclear tests, of which 217 were ground tests. The USSR carried out 969 tests, France 210, the U.K and China, 45 each.