Tag: 40000 and 70000 Koreans died in Hiroshima

Korea A-bomb victims angered by Obama’s Hiroshima visit

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A group representing Korean victims of the US atomic bombings of Japan protested Thursday that their suffering was being neglected ahead of President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Hiroshima. The Association of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims estimates that anywhere between 40,000 and 70,000 Koreans died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when atomic bombs laid waste to the two cities in August 1945. The Korean peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule at […]