President Park Geun-hye has urged lawmakers
to promptly pass a nuclear security bill ahead
of her attendance at the 2014 Nuclear Security
Summit in the Netherlands next week.
At a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, President Park
expressed her regret... that two years after
Korea hosted the global conference in Seoul,
the parliament has not yet approved legislation
related to protecting nuclear materials and
preventing nuclear disasters.
In the 2012 Seoul communique, the participating
nations had agreed to work to prevent criminals
and terrorists from getting their hands on
nuclear materials.
The nuclear security bill has been held up
in the Korean National Assembly by political
wrangling over other contentious issues.
