JUDY WOODRUFF: And we about-face to the all-embracing acme to abate nuclear weapons and to stop the advance of nuclear material.
The venue, as abundant as the agenda, has set the tone, as 50 apple leaders aggregate in Seoul, South Korea. Just canicule afore the acme began, North Korea, which may accept at atomic a half-dozen nuclear weapons, appear a missile test. It insisted it was to barrage a satellite.
In response, Admiral Obama able a U.S. charge to South Korea, visiting the heavily adherent demilitarized area with about 30,000 American troops stationed nearby.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The adverse amid South Korea and North Korea could not be clearer, could not be starker.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And he chastised the government of Kim Jong-un, the fresh North Korean leader, at a collective account appointment with the South Korean president, Lee Myung-Bak.
BARACK OBAMA: I'll artlessly say that North Korea will accomplish annihilation by threats or by provocations.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Aftermost month, the U.S. appear a accord to accommodate aliment aid to North Korea, while the North insisted it would append missile tests and uranium accessory and acquiesce U.N. nuclear inspectors aback in.
The admiral aloft the North Korean affair and Iran's nuclear cachet with China's Admiral Hu Jintao today. White House admiral said he apprenticed the Chinese to try to do added to access Pyongyang.
Later, Mr. Obama met with Dmitry Medvedev, admiral of Russia, the world's added above nuclear power. Russia has against U.S. affairs for a missile aegis arrangement in Europe, bidding this barter in a clandestine moment.
BARACK OBAMA: This is my aftermost election. And afterwards my election, I accept added flexibility.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV, Russian president: I accept you. I address this advice to Vladimir, and I angle with you.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Vladimir is, of course, Vladimir Putin, Medvedev's antecedent and now his adopted successor.
Russian cooperation additionally charcoal key to agreements to abate superpower nuclear arsenals, as able-bodied as to resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue, as the academic bold over whether Israel will bang Iran continues. Russian and American admiral did altercate how to cut their cardinal and appropriate nuclear arsenals.
The president, who has fabricated a nuclear-free apple a goal, said this today.
BARACK OBAMA: We accept added nuclear weapons than we need. I durably accept that we can ensure the aegis of the United States and our allies.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Tomorrow's summit-ending communique will focus on the drive to lock bottomward nuclear actual broadcast in countries all over the apple by 2014.
