US is world's biggest threat to peace, Swedes believe: Poll

By Afp, Stockholm
29 October 2006, 18:00 PM
The United States is a greater threat to world peace than North Korea, according to Swedes surveyed in a poll aired Sunday.

Some 29 percent of those surveyed said the US posed the biggest danger to peace, compared to 28 percent who considered North Korea the top menace, according to the Temo poll broadcast Sunday by Swedish television station Axess.

Among Swedes aged 16-29, a striking 40 percent believed the US presented the greatest risk.

Iran placed third with 18 percent, followed by Israel (six percent), China (four percent) and Russia (three percent).

Some 1,000 people were surveyed.