The summit on the nuclear safety held in Seoul today is on the main focus of the today's newspapers. "Obama urges North Korea and Iran to drop nuclear programs" is an article published today by the Los Angeles Times. On Monday US President Barack Obama appealed to the leaders of North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear weapons programs at the Summit on Nuclear Safety in Seoul, South Korea. Addressing the new leaders in Pyongyang, Obama warned that their current path would lead to "more broken dreams, more isolation and ever more distance between the people of North Korea and the dignity and opportunity they deserve," the newspaper quotes Obama's words. The Los Angeles Times reports that Obama also met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the continuing violence in Syria. At the summit the leaders agreed on the need for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and said they agreed on delivering medications and communication tools to Syria.
"U.S. and Turkey to Step Up ‘Nonlethal’ Aid to Rebels in Syria" is an article published by the New York Times today on the subject of the agreement between Turkey and the USA reached at the summit on providing joint assistance to rebel groups in Syria including medications and communications equipment. The decision was followed on Monday by the breaking-off of diplomatic relations between Syria and Turkey, previously close allies.
The negotiations between Russia and the US on the missile defense system held in Seoul is the subject of the article "Obama tells Russia's Medvedev more flexibility after election" published by the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet. The newspaper reports that President Barack Obama was caught on camera today assuring acting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he will have "more flexibility" to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense after the US presidential election to be held this year. The "unusually frank exchange" was recorded as Obama and Medvedev were unaware they were heard by reporters who were at that moment lead to a room, the newspaper reports.
The Washington Post published an article today entitled "Muslim Brotherhood asserts its strength in Egypt with challenges to military." The country's main Islamist party, the Muslim Brotherhood, is asserting increasing authority over the country's regime in the last months of the generals' formal regime, the newspaper reports. The special position of the Muslim Brotherhood became clear when its political wing and other Islamist forces appeared to be a majority in the body chosen by the parliament in order to write the new constitution of the country. The liberals vowed to boycott the assembly, and eight withdrew from it, accusing the Islamist parties of taking over the process. The newspaper reported some analysts as saying that growing tensions within the newly-established Egyptian government might hinder the democratic development of the post-revolutionary country.
