Pope Francis said on Monday that the world stood on the edge of the threat of nuclear war, adding that the situation was frightening.
The pope made his remarks on the flight to Chile and Peru, the day after a missile alert turned out to be a false alarm in Hawaii, with North Korea looming over the threat of a nuclear attack.
In response to a question about the threat after Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic tests, the Pope said: “I think we are standing on the edge.”
“I’m really afraid, one incident is enough to make things worse,” he said.
The papal body, which always touches on the dangers of a nuclear war, distributed a package of documents to journalists, including a painful picture taken in 1945 after the Americans dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, where a Japanese child appeared carrying the body of his younger brother.
On the other side of the picture is the Pope’s line with the words “fruits of war”.
“I wanted to copy it and distribute it because such a picture is more than a thousand words, so I wanted to share it with you,” he told reporters.
