Nagasaki mayor pleads for end to nuclear threat amid N. Korea tension


Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (second right) and other representatives carry wreaths for atomic bomb victims during a ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki, Japan today. Nagasaki today marked 72 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb. – AFP pic, August 9, 2017.

NAGASAKI must be the last place to suffer an atomic bombing, its mayor said today, marking 72 years since the devastating American nuclear attack on the Japanese city with a passionate call for denuclearisation.

The anniversary comes as tensions over North Korea’s rogue weapons programme and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from United States president Donald Trump rattle the region and put nuclear threats in the spotlight.


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