WASHINGTON, March 31: U.S. President Barack Obama is opening his fourth and final nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, acknowledging that the world remains imperiled by North Korea’s nuclear weapons development and the possibility that the terrorist group Islamic State could set off radioactive dirty bombs.
Ahead of the summit, Obama is meeting at the White House with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss the North Korean threat in the wake of Pyongyang’s January nuclear test and a long-range missile launch in February. Later, Obama is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Obama said in a Washington Post opinion article that “the international community must remain united in the face of North Korea’s continued provocations…
The United States will continue working with allies and partners for the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in a peaceful manner.”-Agencies
