President Park of South Korea to attend Nuclear Security Summit 2016

President Park Geun-Hye will travel to Washington later this March to attend the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit.

World leaders from more than 50 countries and the heads of international organizations like the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency will be attending to discuss countermeasures against the threat of Nuclear terrorism and adopt a joint communique.

On the sidelines of the summit, President Park is also slated to hold a handful of summit talks.

This will include trilateral talks with U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, where North Korea's nuclear issues are likely to dominate discussions.

President Park then will fly to Mexico City for summit talks with her Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto (Benn-nya Knee-ah-toe)

The two countries will agree upon ways to enhance cooperation in various sectors ranging from ICT to security and education.

The first Nuclear Security Summit 2016 was held in Washington, DC in 2010, and was followed by additional summits in Seoul in 2012 and The Hague in 2014. These summits have achieved tangible improvements in the security of nuclear materials and stronger international institutions that support nuclear security -nss2016.org

The NSS 2016 will continue to provide forum for leaders to engage with each other and reinforce commitment at the highest levels to securing nuclear materials.

This fourth Summit is a "transition Summit," as characterized by President Obama in 2014. An important focus at this time is ensuring that the nuclear security architecture and the important achievements of the Summit process are maintained and sustained.

For example, the Summit process has identified international institutions and initiatives that form the foundation of the global nuclear security architecture. The 2016 Summit will issue Action Plans supporting the United Nations, the IAEA, INTERPOL, the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), and the Global Partnership.

The four Nuclear Security Summits have successfully fulfilled President Obama's commitment to raise nuclear security to senior-most levels in order to make concrete achievements in securing nuclear material and strengthening the global nuclear security architecture.