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| Other Multilateral-Security Cooperation Forums | Since 2013, the MND has participated

in the Fullerton Forum held in Singapore, and discussed issues related to the Korean Peninsula
and regional security issues with senior defense off icials and security experts from Asia-Pacif ic
countries including the U.S., China, Japan, and Russia. At the 2018 Fullerton Forum, in

particular, the ROK Minister of National Defense underscored the ROK government’s f irm
position on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and shared the ROK’s security policies
with the participants.

The MND has been participating in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) since 2003, and the
ROK and Thailand have co-chaired the inter-sessional meeting on humanitarian assistance and
disaster relief since 2017. The MND has further bolstered its multilateral security cooperation

activities by attending the Tokyo Defense Forum (TDF) annually, which is a director general–
level security consultative mechanism in the Asia-Pacif ic Region, as well as the Xiangshan
Forum 27) in China. Furthermore, the MND attends the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue
(NEACD) every year, whose key members include the participating states of the Six-Party

Talks, to build military confidence among the nations and explore ways to promote cooperation
for peace in Northeast Asia.

The MND will continue to put its efforts to gain broader support for the ROK’s security
policy by bolstering stronger multilateral security cooperation activities and share the ROK Chapter 5
government’s position on peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia with
partner countries.

4. Strengthening International Non-proliferation and
Counter-Proliferation Activities

| International Non-proliferation Efforts 28) | Since the end of the Cold War, the international

27) The Xiangshan Forum is a track 1.5 (government plus civilian participants) multilateral security consultative
meeting attended by defense officials and security experts from around 50 countries across the world. It was
launched in 2014 under the supervision of China’s Ministry of National Defense. Between 2006 and 2013, it was
held every other year, and civilian institutions participated in it.
28) Diplomatic efforts to prevent the proliferation of various types of weapons including WMDs as well as their
delivery systems and conventional weapons

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