Biden will not apologize for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
According to Rashatodi, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, on his way to Japan to attend the G7 summit, said that US President Joe Biden will attend the ceremony to pay tribute to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, but in his opinion (Biden) ) This ceremony is not a bilateral event or milestone!
He explained that Biden, as one of the leaders of the Group of Seven, will attend the wreath-laying ceremony at the Hiroshima Memorial to pay respect to both history and the hometown of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
As part of the G7 summit, which begins tomorrow (Friday), Kishida has included a visit to the Hiroshima memorial in the program of the leaders of the United States, England, Canada, France, Germany and Italy. In this event, they are going to place a wreath on this building and participate in the tree planting ceremony around this building. The building is the only building left after the 1945 atomic bombing.
America dropped atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th and Nagasaki was bombed 6 days later. Harry Truman, the president of the United States at the time, claimed that this bombing saved the lives of millions of people, mainly American soldiers who might have been killed during the American attack on the Japanese islands, as well as Japanese soldiers and civilians!
Meanwhile, critics believe that the bombing was not necessary because Tokyo intended to surrender. In 2016, former US President Barack Obama became the first sitting president of the country to visit Hiroshima. He did not apologize for the bombing and to this day America is still the only country that used nuclear weapons during the war.
Responding to Biden’s plan on the trip, Sullivan said on Tuesday that the American president “will pay tribute to the innocent people who lost their lives in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but the G7 summit trip is not about the past, but about the future.”
