In an interview with the Korean Times, Scot Wightman, British Ambassador to Seoul, outlined that information security, in addition to safeguarding the world’s nuclear material, is a top priority for Britain at the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit this month.

“We need to secure information that terrorists could use to obtain nuclear material, to turn it into a radiological dispersal or improvised nuclear device, and to mount an effective attack,” said Wightman.

He said further: “We’re asking other participating states to join us in signing a voluntary joint statement, in addition to the general communique, which covers a range of subjects, promoting the importance of information security and to sign up to a menu of specific commitments that will improve national nuclear information security”.

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