NORTH KOREAN NUKE NOT A WORRY

According to anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott the North Korean nuclear threat is the least of our worries:

"The world's deep concern about North Korea is not warranted," says Caldicott, who was reached at a hotel in London, where she was giving a speech last week.

"It's mostly America's deep concern. North Korea has made a tinpot little bomb -- it's only half a kilotonne -- while the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was 13 kilotonnes -- so it's hardly a bomb at all," she adds.

What does give Caldicott nightmares, however, are the 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world today -- 96% of which are owned by the U.S. and Russia.

"The real rogue states are America and Russia," she opines.

"America is the most dangerous country that's ever existed on the planet and no one is talking about it and Russia is pretty bad too because she's still got you targeted with thousands of weapons and no one talks about it.

Caldicott may not be worried about the North Korean bomb but she's dead set against an Australian nuclear power industry:

"If ever there's a chance for us to become an energy superpower, it's to cover every house with solar panels and have wind farms everywhere."

They'd have to be everywhere to generate the power we need.