Seoul Nuclear Security Summit Opens
World leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday began a two-day summit in South Korea aimed at curbing the threat of nuclear terrorism, organizers said.
The leaders or top officials from 53 countries, plus Interpol and three other international organizations, officially began the event with a working dinner hosted by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
The leaders are assessing developments since Obama hosted the first such summit in Washington in 2010.
In a statement, summit organizers hailed "substantial progress" since then, "based on a shared understanding of the danger of the threat of nuclear terrorism."
Obama in 2009 outlined his vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
Since the Washington summit, he said in a speech in Seoul earlier Monday, "thousands of pounds of nuclear material have been removed from sites around the world -- deadly material that is now secure."
Source: Agence France Presse
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