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Obama’s Hiroshima visit will be somber, but without apology
President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Hiroshima can be attributed to the successful coordination between the leaders of Japan and the United States over the significance of the occasion, which both agreed would be an opportunity to commemorate the victims of World War II.
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The White House described the trip as an effort to highlight the US “commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons”.
The U.S. attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, in the final days of World War II, killed 140,000 people and badly burned many thousands more.
But residents also want Obama to visit their village of Tularosa next to where USA government tested the first atomic bomb. The US retains a massive nuclear arsenal, and President Obama has pushed for a modernization campaign to keep the arsenal intact for decades to come.
The president is not expected to issue an apology for the use of atomic weapons in World War II. Instead, Rhodes said in a statement, Obama will spotlight the toll of war and offer a “forward-looking vision” of a non-nuclear world. That agenda hasn’t always proved popular.
Obama’s visit comes as the nuclear debate has been percolating in the 2016 campaign to select his successor, with GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump floating the idea of allowing South Korea and Japan to acquire nuclear weapons. Obama called that idea unsafe, and said it reflected Trump’s ignorance of foreign affairs.
Early in his presidency, Obama said he would be honored to make the trip, and the White House has said it often considered a visit on previous trips to Asia.
The visit will be an important milestone in the post-war settling of matters between Japan and the United States related to the first atomic bombing in the history of mankind.
FILE – In this May 25, 1984 file photo, guided by then-Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki, former President Jimmy Carter carries a wreath to place at the memorial cenotaph, a monument that contains the names of those who died in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, western Japan.
President Obama shows political gumption in becoming the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, which he will do this month.
But the praise for Obama could quickly turn into criticism if victims’ groups and others don’t see concrete steps taken toward further nuclear disarmament, Winkler said.
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Peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest insisted all questions of whether or not Obama should apologize should be left up to “historians”.