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President Park Geun-hye is now in Washington for the fourth and final Nuclear Security
Summit. The South Korean leader plans to win international
consensus on more effectively implementing sanctions on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
Our presidential office correspondent Song Ji-sun files this report from Washington.
President Park Geun-hye's multilateral diplomacy will take center stage at this year's Nuclear
Security Summit in Washington as she arrived in the U.S. capital on Wednesday,... local
time. Before the official summit programs begin
on Thursday, President Park will start the day with a one-on-one with U.S. President
Barack Obama. The two will then be joined by Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe for trilateral talks,... where the leaders will discuss countermeasures
and sanctions on North Korea for its recent nuclear and missile provocations.
Following a bilateral meeting with Abe, President Park will also hold in-depth discussions on
Pyongyang with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The North Korean nuclear issue is not an official
agenda at the Nuclear Security Summit,... as the safe management of nuclear fuel....
and better protecting the world from nuclear terror threats are the main goals this year.
But as Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test and long-range missile launch earlier this year
once again threatened global peace and security,... President Park will seek to strengthen international
support and cooperation to quash North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
"As this will be the first time that world leaders are gathered under the same roof since
North Korea's fourth nuclear test on January sixth.
President Park will not want to waste this opportunity - both at one-on-one sessions
and during official programs at the Nuclear Security Summit -- to firmly discourage Pyongyang
from pushing forward with another provocation like a fifth nuclear test.
Song Ji-sun, Arirang News, Washington."