World leaders at Nuclear Security Summit
Leaders from around the world gathered last Thursday. It followed further nuclear and ballistic missile tests carried out by North Korea and the threat of DAESH reaching nuclear materials. United States President Barack Obama welcomed world leaders for his fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit. It focused on securing vulnerable atomic materials to prevent nuclear terrorism. Obama urged leaders to do more to protect nuclear facilities to prevent what he called “madmen” from getting their hands on nuclear materials.
Nuclear security treaty agreed
The US president said that the required 102 countries had already approved to amend a nuclear security treaty that would tighten protections against nuclear theft and smuggling. Obama ramps up pressure on Pyongyang. The summit also focused on North Korea. Obama discussed steps to deter further North Korean missile tests during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Obama also joined South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. They promised to step up pressure on Pyongyang. But North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations So Se-pyong says that Pyongyang will continue its nuclear and ballistic missile programme.
Fighting against DAESH
Obama also held a special session to discuss the fight against DAESH.. He pledged to deploy more US “surge teams” to Europe - after the Brussels attacks last month fuelled concern that DAESH may target nuclear plants, steal materials and develop radioactive dirty bombs.
Russia absent
It’s a time of increased tensions between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine and Syria. And Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to attend this year’s summit. That led to doubts that the meeting would not produce any major decisions.
1st Nuclear Security Summit held in 2010
Obama held the first Nuclear Security Summit in 2010. It was a year after he gave a landmark speech in Prague, where he said he’d like to see a world free of nuclear weapons. The US president acknowledged that not all the roughly 2,000 tonnes of nuclear material stored around the world is properly secured. And that countries have a role to play in protecting them...The threat of nuclear terrorism has become one of the greatest challenges to international security in the 21th century. And it’s a threat that’s constantly evolving.
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