Obama's Hiroshima visit a childish gesture: North Korea

May 28, 2016 04:55 am | Updated September 22, 2016 04:55 am IST - SEOUL:

Nuclear-armed North Korea has ridiculed U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima as the “childish” diplomatic ploy of a “nuclear war fanatic”.

In a commentary released late Thursday, the North’s official KCNA news agency said Mr. Obama's visit was an act of stunning hypocrisy. “It is a childish political calculation,” the agency said. “Even if Obama visits the damaged city, he cannot hide his identity as a nuclear war fanatic and nuclear weapons proliferator,” it added.

The KCNA commentary also questioned Tokyo’s motives in organising the visit.

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