Survivor relives the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

(6 Aug 2007)
Hiroshima - recent
1. Wide of Hiroshima City
2. Various of A-Bomb dome
3. Pan of A-Bomb dome roof replica to picture of devastated Hiroshima city
4. Pan of photo of devastated Hiroshima
5. Various of museum
6. Park Nam-ju collecting her mail
7. Various of Park walking
8. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese): Park Nam-ju, Survivor
"The sound ""Boom"" came after a light. For an instant I did not know what had happened. After a while I realised that the train I was in was moving backwards. An adult shouted to get out of the train. I thought I was holding on tight to my younger brother and sister, but I seemed to have got out of the train by myself and my brother and sister were carried out by an adult."
9. Various of photo of devastated Hiroshima
10. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese): Park Nam-ju, Survivor
"I saw adult and children alike running from the centre of the city, waving their arms like a bird. Shouting, ""Help me, It's hot"". They were wearing summer thin clothes but I can see that clothes was burnt into their skin. The skin had melted and was hanging down from their arms like a sleeve of Kimono. And they were shouting ""It's hot, It's hot, help me"" running towards the river bank and at the river bank they lost strength and fell"
11. Various of museum display showing people suffering from burns
12. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Park Nam-ju, Survivor
"I have not heard of discrimination or mistreatment, but I hear that many of the A-bomb victims who went back to Korea have had bitter life and have a lot they want to say (to the Japanese authorities)"
13. Park Nam-ju cooking
14. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Park Nam-ju, Survivor
"It is well to try to make a ""Beautiful Country"", but I think it is wrong to ignore something that should not be forgotten and build a ""Beautiful Country"" on top of it."
15. Park Nam-ju reading letter from elementary school children
16. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Park Nam-ju, Survivor
"It may be important to be in good terms with the U.S. or Europe, but as there is a saying in Japan ""Three houses across the street and neighbours on the either side"", I think it is best to be friend with the neighbouring China and Korea first."
17. Park Nam-ju working in Kitchen.
LEAD IN:
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan is committed to its non-nuclear policy and will work towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, as Hiroshima marked the 62nd anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.
About 40-thousand survivors, residents and visitors from around the world observed a minute of silence at 8:15 a.m. on Monday, (2315 GMT on Sunday), the moment the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped its deadly payload on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
An estimated 140-thousand people were killed instantly or died within a few months after the bombing.
Three days later, another US airplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80-thousand people.
As the world remembers the victims of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki a victim shares her experiences of that fateful day.
STORYLINE:
Park Nam-Ju, a second generation Korean resident in Hiroshima is one such person.
In the morning of August 6th 1945, aged 13, Park too her little brother and sister on a train ride into the city, where her father and uncle had worked.
There was an air raid warning earlier that morning but it went passed without an incident.
She was enjoying her train ride with her brother and sister, when a man looked out of the window of the train and said "I see a B-29 flying over".
Park describes what happened next.

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