The UK book launch was attended by Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, IOC Executive Secretary and IOC Assistant Director-General of UNESCO who also gave the IMarEST Stanley Gray Lecture on 'The challenge of ocean governance: An IOC perspective'.
But China's Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told the same briefing that the issue of North Korea and its satellite launch wouldn't be on the agenda at the global nuclear-security summit in Seoul next week.