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In Cuba’s national newspaper Granma, the 86-year-old politician warned, “If a war breaks out there, there would be a terrible slaughter of people” referring to both North and South Korea and added, “with no benefit for either of them.” This is a serious stance given Castro’s difficult history with the U.S., including the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, which ensued after Fidel allowed the Soviet Union to place nuclear weapons in the island in order to use against the U.S.

"This is about one of the most serious dangers of nuclear war since the October Crisis around Cuba in 1962, 50 years ago," wrote the dictator, who stepped down in 2008. He also added, “Now that [North Korea] has demonstrated its technical and scientific achievements, we are reminded...that such a war would affect more than 70 percent of the population of the planet."


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