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NATO seeks to enhance security cooperation with South Korea through “sustained” military exchanges.
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ATO seeks to enhance security cooperation with South Korea through “sustained” military exchanges, the chairman of its top military body has said, underscoring the significance of “substantive” defense cooperation.
NATO Military Committee chair Adm. Rob Bauer made a rare trip to South Korea and held respective talks with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Gen. Won In-choul and Defense Minister Suh Wook.
The visit by the NATO Military Committee chief to the country marks only the second time, following the first such trip by then-Chairman Petr Pavel in May 2016.
Gen. Won and Adm. Bauer “discussed the security situation of the Korean Peninsula and the situation in Ukraine and ways to enhance military cooperation between South Korea and NATO” during the meeting in the morning, South Korea’s JCS said in a statement on Monday.
Bauer proposed to work together to “further strengthen the South Korea-NATO cooperation through sustained military exchanges,” underscoring that South Korea is an “important global partner of NATO.”
Won also called for “further reinforcing cooperation” between South Korea and NATO as “global security cooperation partners,” expressing his gratitude for NATO’s efforts to improve South Korea-NATO relations.
In addition, the chairman of the NATO Military Committee “extended his gratitude for South Korea’s proactive support” for Ukraine.
