Daily Mail: 'We must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different,' Obama says during historic visit to Pearl Harbor with Japan's Abe 75 years after sneak attack on US base
* Abe is paying his respects to the soldiers who died in his country's unexpected attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base 75 years ago
* The Japanese leader did not say he was sorry for the military action
* Mirrors a visit Obama made to Hiroshima, the Japanese city the U.S. obliterated at the end of the fight, in May; he didn't apologize either
* Closes the loop on Obama's pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation as president and his Asia rebalance that included a trade agreement Donald Trump wants to scrap
* Obama is vacationing in Hawaii with his family and visited the USS Arizona Memorial with Abe this afternoon
* They met earlier today in private before a wreath laying ceremony and their remarks
President Barack Obama asked Americans once more to reject the politics of division, taking a subtle jab at his successor, Republican Donald Trump, as he stood aboard a memorial commemorating the men and women who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Accompanied by Japan's Shinzo Abe, Obama said the United States' alliance with its wartime foe is a reminder 'the most bitter of adversaries can become the strongest allies' and 'the fruits of peace always outweigh the plunder of war.'
'It is here that we remember that even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward,' the two-term president, who leaves office in less than month, said Tuesday. 'We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different.'
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