Would Fidel Castro have some pull with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un? The former Cuba dictator has a message for North Korea’s young ‘revolutionary’ leader. In this special edition of Reflections of Fidel, a column that Castro stopped writing in June 2012, the Cuban icon reminds his younger charge that he knew his grandfather Kim Il-sung, and that jeopardizing people at the heart of the world’s most densely populated region is as ‘absurd’ as it is unthinkable.
From the pages of the Juventud Rebelde, Fidel Castro starts off rather cosmically:
A few days ago, I referred to the great challenges currently confronting humanity. Intelligent life on our planet emerged approximately 200,000 years ago. More recent finding might demonstrate something else.
This is not to confuse the existence of intelligent life with the existence of life, which, in its elemental form, emerged in our solar system 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 that followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took place more than 13.7 billion years ago.
This would be too long an introduction if it wasn’t to explain the gravity of an event as incredible and absurd as the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which is part of a geographic area that contains close to five billion of the seven billion people currently inhabiting the planet.
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