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Nations discuss nuclear pact at UN

WEAPONS LIMIT Almost 190 countries are reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, with questions about the actions of North Korea, Iran and the US on the agenda

AP , UNITED NATIONS

To anti-nuclear protester Akemi Hatano, 66, marching with hundreds of others past the UN on Sunday, such disputes are trivial.

"I'm angry at any country that possesses nuclear weapons. They must all be abolished," said the tiny woman, who as a seven-year-old survived when 160,000 of her neighbors were killed or wounded in the US nuclear bombing of her hometown, Hiroshima.

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