SEOUL: World leaders including US President Barack Obama on Monday began a two-day summit inSouth Koreaaimed at curbing the threat of nuclear terrorism, organisers said.
The leaders or top officials from 53 countries, plus Interpol and three other international organisations, 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 inWashingtonin 2010. In a statement, summit organisers 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 theWashingtonsummit, he said in a speech inSeoulearlier Monday, "thousands of pounds of nuclear material have been removed from sites around the world -- deadly material that is now secure."
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012
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