Korean victims of nuclear warfare
I didn’t realize that 40,000 Koreans who were in Japan were killed in the two atomic bombings in 1945. There also are thousands of Korean survivors, and they want help from the Japanese government. Hiromiti Matuda/Handout from Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum/Getty Images
I didn’t realize that 40,000 Koreans who were in Japan were killed in the two atomic bombings in 1945. There also are thousands of Korean survivors, and they want help from the Japanese government.
Hiromiti Matuda/Handout from Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum/Getty Images
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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