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North Korea criticizes Obama's Hiroshima visit
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South Korean survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombing in Hiroshima and supporters stage a rally demanding a public apology from US President Barack Obama to South Korean victims of the atomic bomb near the US embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)
North Korea's official news agency is criticizing US President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima on Friday.
The Korean Central News Agency published a commentary Thursday calling the visit a "childish political calculation" aimed at hiding Obama's identity as a "nuclear war lunatic" determined to modernize the US nuclear arsenal.
The commentary also accused Japan of trying to use the visit to masquerade as a victim and cover up its atrocities during World War II.
Obama is to become the first sitting US president to visit the western Japanese city where US forces dropped an atomic bomb in 1945. He has called for a world without nuclear weapons, and criticized North Korea's development of both nuclear and missile technology.
