日 히로시마 원폭 75주년 맞아 희생자 추모<br /><br />Good morning to our viewers across the globe, you're watching Arirang's 'The World Now'. I'm Kim Jae-hee.<br />Today marks 75 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.<br />The devastating bomb attack was followed by a second bomb on Nagasaki three days later.<br />Decades have passed, but atomic bomb survivors still speak of the painful memories and their strong desire to abolish war.<br />"I want them to live peacefully. That means we, now, have to abolish any kind of war. We should speak out more clearly to the whole world."<br />Japan will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the two bombings today, and again on August 9th.<br />Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will attended the annual memorial services.<br />In past years, Abe had renewed pledges for a nuclear-free world and paid tribute to the victims during the services.<br />There will also be a minute of silence at the exact time the bombs detonated in both cities.<br />Commemorations are expected to be scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />A memorial service was also held on Wednesday for Koreans who lost their lives after they were exposed to radiation from the Hiroshima bombing.<br />The ceremony was held in front of a monument dedicated to two-thousand-773 Korean victims.<br />But unlike last year when three hundred people came, only around one hundred people attended this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />
