The leaders of South Korea and Japan and their wives visited, laid flowers and prayed for peace Sunday at the Monument in Memory of Korean Victims of the A-bomb, a granite slab in a garden just off the Peace Park in Hiroshima, the first time a Korean leader has visited the memorial. Korean President Yoon Suk Yeon opened a new dialogue in March with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, hoping to that their historically icy relations, and Kishida has reciprocated as he sought to emphasize nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation while hosting the G7 conference. President Biden later joined them to discuss action steps to improve security and invited them to a joint summit in Washington. Some 20,000 Koreans died in the U.S. atomic bomb attack that ended Japan’s attempt to conquer Asia in World War II. (Yuichi Yamazaki, pool)
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