Obama to pay historic visit to Hiroshima this month
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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month in the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the US dropped an atomic bomb.
The White House said Obama will visit along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a previously scheduled visit to Japan to attend a Group of 7 economic summit.
Obama's visit will bolster his call for denuclearization and honor victims of the bombing that killed 140,000 Japanese on Aug. 6, 1945.
The White House has ruled out the possibility that Obama will apologize for the bombing of Hiroshima.
