CNSNews.com - Obama Says He Would Be ‘Honored’ to Visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki

CNSNews.com - Obama Says He Would Be ‘Honored’ to Visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "(CNSNews.com) – Visiting the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – targets of a U.S. atomic bomb attack that hastened the end of World War II – would be “meaningful,” President Obama said Friday in Tokyo.

“I certainly would be honored – it would be meaningful for me to visit those two cities in the future. I don’t have immediate travel plans, but it’s something that would be meaningful to me.”


In an interview with a Japanese network earlier this week, Obama said something similar: 'The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world, and I would be honored to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency,' he said on Tuesday.

Obama, at a joint press conference on Friday with the Japanese prime minister, also lauded the “distant goal” of achieving a world without nuclear weapons.

Such an achievement will take “time” and “specific steps” to realize, he said. “But in seeking this goal, we can stop the spread of nuclear weapons, we can secure loose nuclear weapons, we can strengthen the nonproliferation regimes.”"