Obama said earlier he would honour all who died in World War Two but would not apologise for the bombing. Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on Friday, laying a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing in a gesture Tokyo and Washington hope will showcase their alliance and invigorate efforts to end nuclear arms. "It's bad that so many people got killed in Hiroshima, but it was a necessity to end the war sooner," he said. "We remember all the innocents killed in the arc of that terrible war," a solemn Obama said. "We come to ponder the terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past," Obama said after laying a wreathe at a peace memorial.

Source: dna May 27, 2016 04:33 UTC