U.S. envoy to U.N. becomes first in post to visit Nagasaki

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Friday visited Nagasaki, one of the two atomic bombed cities during World War II, becoming the first official in that post to pay respects to the victims in the southwestern Japan city.Thomas-Greenfield is on a trip to Japan and South Korea, during which she held talks with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida earlier in the day. On Thursday, she met with the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.In Nagasaki, where the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 9, 1945, the ambassador took a 2…READ FULL ARTICLE