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joined the UN in 1991, has deployed the ROK Armed Forces Medical Assistance Team to

Western Sahara, an engineering unit to Angola, the Sangnoksu Unit to East Timor, and the
Danbi Unit to Haiti, and continued to engage in peacekeeping operations in conf lict areas
across the world. As of November 2018, a total of 635 ROK personnel were carrying out their

missions in six countries. They include 331 of the Dongmyeong Unit in Lebanon, 280 of the
Hanbit Unit in South Sudan, and those individually deployed. An overview of the ROK’s
participation in peacekeeping is shown in [Chart 5-6].

[ Chart 5-6 ] ROK Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations
As of November 2018 Unit: Persons

Lebanon
Dongmyeong Unit (331)
Western Sahara
UNIFIL staff officers (4)
MINURSO staff (4)
MI
MINURSO staff (4)N

India and Pakistan
India and Pakikia and Paa
UNTSO staff (7(7ff(staff (7
UNTSO staff (7)
Darfur, Sudan
Darfur Sudan
UNMISS staff (2) South Sudan
Hanbit Unit (280)
UNMISS observers
and staff officers (7)

| Dongmyeong 54) Unit in Lebanon | In 1978,
the UN established the United Nations Interim

Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) following the
adoption of UN Security Council Resolutions
425 and 427, and began to monitor the armistice

agreement between Lebanon and Israel.
In 2006, when the conflict between Israel and
Surveillance activity at a fixed guard post (July 2017)

54) “Dongmyeong” means bright light of the east from an Eastern country, and signifies the hope for a bright future
and peace.

212 Chapter 5 Development of the ROK–U.S. Alliance, and Expansion of Defense Exchanges and Cooperation