By Nick Martin, Sky News Correspondent
Some 2,000 people marched through the centre of Glasgow against nuclear weapons - marking the start of a week of direction action.
Organisers, the Scrap Trident coalition, want to see the UK Government dispose of its nuclear weapons programme and instead use its budget to fund health, education and welfare.
On Monday, there will be a blockade of the Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde where Trident missiles are stored.
It comes just a fortnight after Prime Minister David Cameron visited the base where he argued Scottish jobs would be at risk if the Trident programme was scrapped.
Protesters gathered in George Square He also added that recent posturing from North Korea was a reminder of international threats.
Duncan Macintosh, of the Renfrewshire CND, told Sky News: "It makes Scotland a target and is nothing more than a vestige of the Cold War. I never believed it was an effective deterrent."
Leonna O'Neill of the Faslane Peace Camp, said 80% of Scots were against Trident and that the Government should honour the salaries of workers at the base until they find ethical employment in the area.
Keith Pender, 29, one of those demonstrating, said: "I think it's nonsense that North Korea is a threat to Britain.
"It's an abomination to spend £3bn a year when we have rising poverty today. It's obscene. It shows we need to break up the British state to get rid of it."
Brian Larkin, co-ordinator for Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre, said there was a strong anti-austerity feeling running through the protests.
"People want to put an end to Thatcher's legacy of Trident which has been with us for 30 years.
"With the North Korea situation, it shows us the urgent need now to disarm for the UK.
"Some of his (Mr Cameron's) comments were slightly ridiculous. The idea that North Korea's nuclear weapons could reach the UK is absurd."
The Scrap Trident coalition includes the Scottish CND, the Green Party, the SNP and the Scottish branch of Stop the War.
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