President Jacob has called for calm in North Korea‚ saying "the situation cannot be allowed to get out of hand". Speaking on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly‚ Zuma said: "As a country that voluntarily dismantled its nuclear weapons programme‚ SA is of the firm view that there are no safe hands for weapons of mass destruction." Earlier in the day‚ Zuma signed an anti-nuclear weapons treaty at the United Nations‚ which allows for the use of nuclear technology only for purposes such as energy and medicine. "The only viable solution to the problems of nuclear weapons is their total elimination as expressed in the recently adopted UN treaty‚" he said. "It can no longer be acceptable that a few countries keep arsenals and stockpiles of nuclear weapons as part of their strategic defence‚ while expecting others to remain at their mercy." Zuma also used his speech to call out countries that had "opted for guns and bombs" instead of dialogue to resolve the Libyan crisis in 201...
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