Protest at Downing Street over nuclear war threat with NKorea

Activists speaking at the event slammed US provocative rhetoric against North Korea, urging a diplomatic solution to end the crisis.
Protesters carrying placards urged the UK Government to use all appropriate diplomatic, international and legal means to end nuclear threats.
Organizers of the event, Stop the War Coalition and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament issued a statement saying: We are alarmed by the threat of nuclear war in North East Asia and the wider Pacific region. North Korea continues to test nuclear weapons and missiles in defiance of the international community, while the US and its allies continue provocative actions, threats and exercises in or near North East Asia and the Pacific.
Ri Yong Ho, North Korea's foreign minister said on Monday that Pyongyang has the right to 'shoot down' US planes because Donald Trump had 'declared war'.
Donald Trump, the US president had said that North Korea's leader might not be around much longer - some the North regarded as a 'declaration of war'.
Citing the ‘real danger that these actions will lead to the use of nuclear weapons by intention or miscalculation’ the statement warned: There are no safe hands for nuclear weapons and any detonation of a nuclear device would be a humanitarian catastrophe with global impacts. Threatening and isolating the North Korean regime risks escalating the conflict rather than encouraging solutions.
We call on the UK Government to reject a military solution to the conflict and urgently use its influence to press for all involved to avoid and refrain from further provocative rhetoric or military exercises and tests, it read.
Report by Hadi Naderi in London
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