IDPD Expresses Concern Over Nuclear Test By North Korea
Author(s): City Air NewsLudhiana, January 8, 2016: The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has expressed serious concern over the test of a Hydrogen based nuclear weapon by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The development...
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Jan 8, 2016 10:30
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Ludhiana, January 8, 2016: The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has expressed serious concern over the test of a Hydrogen based nuclear weapon by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The development of new thermonuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them—whether by the DPRK or any other State—only increases the likelihood that these weapons will be used.
“We are equally concerned that at the same time, the other nuclear-armed States—the US, Russia, China, France, the UK, India, Pakistan, and Israel—have failed to honor their own nuclear disarmament obligations, have insisted that their security depends upon nuclear weapons, and are engaged in multi-billion dollar programs to modernize their arsenals”, said Dr LS Chawla and Dr Arun Mitra, president and general secretar, respectively, of the IDPD.
They added while these same countries have condemned the new nuclear test by the DPRK, their hypocrisy provides the government in Pyongyang with the arguments it is now using to justify expansion of its own nuclear weapons program.
Majority of countries now recognize, along with civil society, that preventing the use of nuclear weapons requires prohibiting and eliminating them. “We urge the DPRK government to reconsider its pursuit of nuclear weapons and to join with the majority of States that have pledged to stigmatize, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons because of their unacceptable humanitarian impact”, they said.
Date:
Friday, January 8, 2016
