Japan’s Dream of Nuclear-Free World Crashes Into Reality at Hiroshima G-7

Russia, China and North Korea hold half of world’s warheads
US sending aircraft carrier groups and submarines to region

WATCH: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida juggles aspirations for nuclear disarmament with security challenges including the renewed threattriggered by the war in Ukraine. Kurumi Mori reports.Source: Quicktake by Bloomberg

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By Jon Herskovitz and Kurumi Mori

May 17, 2023 at 9:00 PM UTC

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida brought the Group of Seven summit to his hometown of Hiroshima to persuade world leaders to scrap nuclear arms. Instead, the US allies are expected to discuss bringing more to the region to deter common foes.

At the meeting starting on Friday, Kishida’s long-held ambition of “a world without nuclear arms” is set to clash with the harsh realities of the security challenges posed by China, North Korea and Russia, all of which neighbor Japan and possess about half of the world’s nuclear warheads.