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| President Park Geun-hye, center, takes a photo with U.S. President Barack Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. / Yonhap |
By Park Si-soo
Koreans scratched their heads when President Park Geun-hye was missing from a ceremonial group photo of leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, which were released on Friday afternoon (local time).
The presidential office explained why: the photo was taken when Park was in the toilet.
French President Francois Hollande also was missing, for reasons unknown.
Chung Wa Dae officials said Sunday the photo was scheduled to be taken during a 15-minute coffee break between the morning and afternoon session. But the time was curtailed because the morning session had ended later than expected. To begin the afternoon session as planned, the photo time was rescheduled till when the morning session ended.
Unaware of this, Park left for the restroom right after the morning session ended ― and when she returned the photo had been taken.
Instead, she had her photo taken with U.S. President Barack Obama and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after the afternoon session ended.
The Nuclear Security Summit was attended by leaders from 52 countries and four international organizations, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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| President Park Geun-hye is missing from this ceremonial group photo of leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. This photo was taken when she was in the toilet. / Yonhap |
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