Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has lambasted US President Barack Obama for failing to apologize to Japan during his visit to the East Asian country in May over the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Speaking at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in May, Obama offered no apology for the US bombings of the two Japanese cities but called for a world without nuclear weapons.

Prior to his visit to Japan, the US president said he would not apologize to Japan for the world’s first nuclear bombing that killed more than 140,000 people in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

“The US president’s speech in Japan lacked the words to apologize for the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima, even though they (the United States) knew the effects of the bomb,” Castro said in an article published by official media late Friday.

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