An antinuclear campaign group was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and the decision is viewed by some as an obvious message toward U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

As foreign news media reported on this year's Nobel laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, they mentioned the current tensions between the U.S. and North Korea over the North's weapons program.

In an articled titled "Nobel says to Korea nuke players: We are watching," the Associated Press said the peace prize couldn’t be awarded to Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump.

But it said the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN opened itself to a clear interpretation across Asia.

The AP went on to explain that when it comes to the nuclear-saturated war of words on the Korean Peninsula, attention must be paid and treaties must be signed. 

It said the peace prize implies this must be done "in a preventative way, at top speed, before something happens that can’t be undone."

Announcing the honor, the Nobel Committee cited ICAN “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.”

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