Via Breitbart National Security
““The world thinks Japan is the atomic bomb victim. That is wrong,” Shim Jin-Tae, a Korean national who survived the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, told reporters at a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Seoul.
Korean and Chinese victims of Japanese aggression during the war are demanding their voices be heard after President Obama laid a wreath at a memorial in Hiroshima, Japan Friday.
Korean victims of the Japanese empire congregated in Seoul, noting that they and their ancestors, in the case of those protesting on behalf of their late parents and grandparents, were brought to Hiroshima as slaves of the Japanese empire, the victims of a bombing on their enemies. The protest was organized by the Association of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims and assembled on Thursday. They are demanding an apology from both President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“Japan is the country that began the war. Koreans are the victims of the atomic bomb,” Shim, 73 years old, told the Agence France-Presse. “Japan, as a country that started the war, has never apologized.”
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