HIROSHIMA -- Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba has delivered a protest letter to top Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) politician Taku Yamasaki after he described North Korea's nuclear test last year as a good thing because it revealed the country's nuclear weapons capability.

The remarks were made by the former LDP vice president in a speech delivered in Tokyo on Tuesday. Responding quickly to Yamasaki's remarks, Mayor Akiba sent a protest letter to his office on Friday, according to city officials.

"The city of Hiroshima, which has been striving to abolish nuclear weapons, cannot accept these words," the letter partly reads.

On the same day, Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue submitted a similar protest letter, saying Yamasaki didn't fully understand the tension felt in Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Asian countries after the nuclear test was carried out. (Mainichi)

TrackBack URI for this entry

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

Write comment

Name

Email

Website

Title

Comment

smaller | bigger

Subscribe via email (Registered users only)

I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.

Write the displayed characters

Add Comment