Yoon, Kishida Show Unity at Memorial for Korean A-Bomb Victims
- South Korean president praises Kishida’s tribute as courageous
- Yoon has pushed to mend long-fraught ties with fellow US ally
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida together laid flowers at a memorial for Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima, in a display of the warming ties that have helped cooperation with their mutual US ally.
Dressed in somber colors, the two leaders and their wives bowed silently at the monument Sunday after laying bouquets of white flowers. The brief ceremony took place on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, where 78 years ago the world’s first atomic strike killed an estimated 140,000 people including Koreans.