A North Korean group representing survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki said Saturday it will ask Japan for help to build a hospital to treat them.
Jon Jong Hyok, secretary general of the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Association for Anti-Nuclear Peace, told Kyodo News the association will ask Japan to help set up a hospital in North Korea to treat Koreans who were in the cities in August 1945.
Jon also said the organization will urge Japan to provide Korean victims with the same assistance that Japanese survivors receive under Japanese law, establish a memorial monument for Koreans killed in the attacks and release related documents.
It also wants a public apology from Tokyo for forcibly taking people from its colony on the Korean Peninsula to perform labor in Japan.