Citizens of nuclear-bombed Marshall Islands yearn for Obama visit

Citizens of nuclear-bombed Marshall Islands yearn for Obama visit

In this Feb. 2014 photo, Nerje Joseph, now 68, a Marshall Islands national who was affected by a 1954 U.S. nuclear bomb test in her country's Bikini Atoll, shows a photo in the capital Majuro of her young self suffering from radiation exposure. Joseph and other residents of the tiny Pacific island country are yearning for a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama after learning that he is visiting Hiroshima, Japan, to campaign for a nuclear free world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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