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Other Multilateral Security The MND has strengthened its multilateral
Cooperation Meetings security cooperation activities, discussing
security issues with high-level defense off cials
and security experts in the Asia-Pacific region, through its participation in the
Fullerton Forum, the ARF, the Tokyo Defense Forum (TDF)–an Asia-Pacific
director general-level security consultative forum–and the Beiging Xiangshan
Forum held in China. Furthermore, the MND participates in the Northeast Asia
Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD)–whose key members are countries that
participated in the six-party talks–every year, seeking ways to build military
conf dence between nations and advance cooperation in Northeast Asia. The MND
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Diplomatic efforts to will continue to exert its efforts to gain broader support for the ROK’s security policy
prevent the proliferation of
various types of weapons by bolstering stronger multilateral security cooperation activities and sharing with
including WMDs as well as
their delivery systems and partner countries the ROK government’s position on peace and stability on the
conventional arms.
Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia.
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See Appendix 20
"International Disarmament
and Non-Proliferation
Agreements and
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Organizations" (p. 416) 4. Strengthening International Non-proliferation and Counter-
29) proliferation Activities
After joining the IAEA in
1957 and signing out the
Nuclear Non-proliferation International Since the end of the Cold War, the international
Treaty (NPT) in 1975, the
ROK joined the Zangger Non-proliferation Efforts community has been strengthening global non-
Committee (ZC) in 1995,
the NSG in 1995, and the proliferation efforts to curb the spread of WMDs,
Comprehensive Nuclear
Test–Ban Treaty (CTBT) in WMD-related materials, technologies and delivery systems, as well as conventional
1999.
arms. The global non-proliferation regime consists of international treaties,
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The IAEA is an international international organizations that oversee and inspect the implementation of treaties,
organization that provides
technological support to and export control systems that restrict the transfer of related materials, equipment,
promote the peaceful use
and that seeks to prevent and technologies. The international community has also enhanced the effectiveness
the military use of nuclear
materials (established in of non-proliferation regimes by introducing sanctions against nonfulfillment of
1957, holds 172 member
states.) nonproliferation obligations based on UN Security Council Resolutions, and
supplementing the issue of applying regulations against nonmember states and non-
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The NSG is an export state actors.
control regime concerning
nuclear materials as Since joining the UN in 1991, the ROK participated in various international non-
well as nuclear-related
technologies, equipment, proliferation regimes and activities that regulate nuclear weapons, chemical and
and dual-use items. Unlike
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the NSG controls exports
to all nonnuclear states The MND established legal and institutional foundations to execute non-
regardless of their
membership with the NPT proliferation responsibilities in accordance with non-proliferation treaties and
(established in 1978, holds
48 member states.) international organizations, and the thorough and faithful execution of these

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