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Anti-nuke activists leave for N. Korea to visit A-bomb survivors
 SHENYANG, China(AP) - (Kyodo)—Eight anti-nuclear activists, most of them Japanese, departed for Pyongyang via Shenyang in China on Saturday to study the current situations facing North Korean survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The eight people include Takashi Mukai, deputy chief of the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, known as Gensuikin, Shingou Fukuyama, an executive officer of the association, and Li Sil Gun, head of a Japan-based organization that helps Korean atomic bomb survivors. They plan to return to Japan on Wednesday. They will meet with members of a North Korean group of atomic bomb survivors to grasp their current situation and explain the Japanese government's support for victims of the bombings living abroad, with the aim of improving support for those living in North Korea. According to the North Korean group, about 900 North Korean atomic bomb survivors remain alive. Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-10-06 |
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