Kim Bong-hyun, Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs of MOFAT, and Gary Samore, WMD Coordinator at the White House National Security Council, who are the Korean and US Sherpas for the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, held a consultation at MOFAT on May 3, and agreed to closely cooperate to successfully host the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. The US side expressed an intention to share its experiences from the Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington in April, 2010, and to actively cooperate with Korea for the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit to achieve maximum results.

Korea and the US discussed a wide range of issues including the Summit agenda, areas where substantive progress can be made, goals and objectives of the Summit, outcome documents, composition of participating countries and schedule for Sherpa meetings. They also exchanged opinions on how to deal with nuclear safety in the context of the Nuclear Security Summit, an issue which has emerged on the global agenda in the wake of the nuclear accident at Fukushima, Japan. The Korean side explained about the current status of preparations for the Summit including the launch of a preparation and planning team.

The two sides decided to continue consultations at the Sous-Sherpa meeting to be held in Seoul on June 27-28 and the Sherpa meeting to be held in Finland in October.