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Obama calls for a world without nuclear arms as he becomes the first serving US president to visit site of atomic bomb attack that killed 140,000.
President Barack Obama embraced a survivor of Hiroshima today - but stopped short of an apology for the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the city.
The U.S. president declared that the world has a 'shared responsibility' to review history and 'curb such suffering' from happening, as it did on August 6, 1945, when 140,000 residents of Hiroshima died when the town was leveled.
'Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima?' he asked. 'We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in the not so distant past. We come to mourn the dead.'
Obama solemnly reflected on the world's first atomic strike and said, 'We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war.'
With his stop today at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park following the conclusion of the G7 summit Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Japanese town that was leveled Allied forces during World War II with this stop today at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
He was careful not to recast President Harry Truman's decision to authorize the launch of the war-ending 'Little Boy' bomb 71 years ago as a mistake and instead focused on the legacy of nuclear weapons.
During the emotional speech, which was followed by remarks from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama expressed a desire to see the end of nuclear weapons after acknowledging the attack 'demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself'
At the moving ceremony Obama said, 'Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering, but we have a shared resp to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.'
What happened 'was not fate,' he said. And every act of aggression between nations, every act of terror and of cruelty 'shows our work is never done.'
'We may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil,' he said, 'so nations and the alliances we have formed must possess the means to defend ourselves.'
For nations with nuclear stockpiles, 'We must have the courage to escape the logic of fear, and pursue a world without them,' Obama stated.
Still it is not enough. 'Even he crudest rifle and barrel bombs can serve up violence on a terrible scale,' he said.
'We must change our mind set about war itself, to prevent conflict through diplomacy and strive to end conflicts after they've begun,' the American president said. 'We must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race.'
At a news conference on Thursday Obama was asked about North Korea's own nuclear aspirations and the outgoing president, due to retire in January, admitted he has 'not seen the kind of progress that I would have liked to have seen,' although the U.S. has at least been successful at mobilizing the international community 'so that their proliferation activities are scrutinized much more carefully.
'And they have far fewer countries that are tolerant of potential actions by North Korea outside of their own program,' Obama observed.
'Having said that, North Korea is a big worry for all of us. They're not at the point right now where they can effectively hit U.S. targets, but each time that they test -- even if those tests fail -- they learn something. And it is clear that ideologically they are still convinced that -- and Kim Jong-un in particular seems to be convinced that his own legitimacy is tied up with developing nuclear weapons.'
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