South Korea will seek to expand maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific as part of efforts to implement its own Indo-Pacific strategy crafted to contribute to regional peace and stability, a senior foreign ministry official said Tuesday.
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ongoing Cabinet reshuffle has been criticized as a series of revolving door appointments as familiar faces, mostly his close aides, are anticipated to take turns holding ministerial and other key government posts ahead of the upcoming general elections slated for April.
8 NATO envoys to visit Seoul to discuss Indo-Pacific security Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
A delegation of representatives from eight NATO member countries is set to visit Seoul later this week, in a rare collective visit reflecting the transatlantic security alliance's heightened interest in the Indo-Pacific region amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. The three-day visit from Wednesday to Friday aims to "engage in discussions on the security situation in the Indo-Pacific region and other pertinent i.