3. 'Nuclear Safety' agenda(Segye Times)

'Nuclear Safety', differentiated from 'Nuclear Security', is an activity to protect human race and environment from radiological hazards due to natural disasters or technical malfunction. But since the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in last March, the possibilities of threats in the nuclear facilities by terrorists were noticed, which resulted in the spread of awareness of the correlation between Nuclear Security and Safety. The government will deal with Nuclear Safety as main agenda in this Summit. It will be dealt during the luncheon on 27th, the second day of the Summit. The authority said "The correlation of Nuclear Security and Safety will be discussed and selected as an agenda". However, the Gori Nuclear Accident and the attemp to conceal it, have ashamed the government's plan which is to set an example of nuclear-utilizing nation. An high level official said on 15th, "The Gori Nuclear Accident and the attempt to conceal it have dishonored our nation and the government's plans have reached a deadlock"

2. Expecting the Summit to act as a catalyst to North Korean nuclear talks

This summit is expected to get the North Koran nuclear talk moving. North Korean nuclear issue is not an official agenda in the summit; however, since the summit is taking place is the Korean Peninsula, there is a great possibility that Norh Korean nuclear issue will be dealt in one form or another. Ban Ki-moon UN secretary general said "Since world leaders are participating in the summit, North Korean nuclear problem will surface." Some are discussing ways to indicate one's stance after Korea-US bilateral meeting. As the participating nations of the summit welcomes North Korea's denuclearizing preliminary steps and urge North Korea to take forward-looking measures, there is an analysis that six-party nuclear talks will soon resume.

1. The Seoul Communiqué to Discard Nuclear Substance

The main goal of the Nuclear Security Summit is to prevent nuclear terrorism by safely managing and removing nuclear substances such as highly enriched uranium(HEU) and plutonium. Today, enough HEU and plutonium to create 126,500 nuclear weapons exist in this world. According to IAEA, 1800~2000 reports of stolenㆍmissingㆍaccroachingㆍtrafficing of nuclear substances have been made since 1993. Bargaining agents of the summit agreed on minimizing weapon-grade nuclear substances and strenghthening physical protection of nuclear facilities as well as blocking illegal business of nuclear substances. This will be accepted as a Seoul Communiqué on 27th. The most important part is minimizing HEU in the private sector. According to Nuclear Security Summit Planning Team, Kazakhstan has 10t, Canada 1500kg, Japan 1200~1400kg, Germany 950kg, and other non-nuclear nations 16~17t of HEU in the private sector. It takes 25kg of HEU to create 1 nuclear weapon, so if all HEU in private sector is removed, 640~680 potential nuclear weapon is being destroyed. Argentina, Australia, Czech, and 7 other nations who promissed to discard all HEU in the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit Washington have kept their promises. US and Russia each reduced 7t and 48t of HEU. Korea is expecting that more nuclear substance will be removed from this summit.

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