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Military Observers and Staff Officers The ROK government currently has
in UN Missions around 20 personnel dispatched to
UN missions in major conflict re-
gions including India, Pakistan, Lebanon, South Sudan, and Western Sahara. Some
of them work as observers and armistice monitoring agents, and some as military
staff off cers in UN missions. In addition to UN peacekeeping operations, the ROK
government increased its contribution to UN Special Political Missions by
dispatching ROK military observers to the UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah
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Agreement (UNMHA) , which was established in January 2019. Observers monitor
armistice violations and undertake tasks, such as patrols, investigations, reporting,
and mediation, under the control of UN missions. Staff off cers of UN missions carry
out their duties in major staff offices of each command such as intelligence,
operations, and logistics off ces.

2. Multinational Forces’ Peace Operations

Peace operations of multinational forces are activities undertaken by multinational Chapter 6

forces under the leadership of select countries and regional organizations based on
UN Security Council resolutions or other grounds. Together with UN peacekeeping
operations, peace operations by multinational forces play an important role in the
stabilization and reconstruction of conf ict regions. Since 2001, the ROK government
has been deploying Haesung, Cheongma, Dongeui, Dasan, and Ashena units to
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Afghanistan and Seohee, Jema, aytun, and Daiman units to Iraq. One of the UN missions
The Ashena Unit, in particular, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 to support the which was established
in accordance with UN
stabilization and reconstruction of the country. The unit protected the reconstruction Security Council Resolution
2452 to support the
activities of the Provincial Reconstruction Team during a span of more than 1,800 execution of the Hudaydah
Agreement (December
escort and surveillance operations between 2010 and June 2014, thereby contributing 2018) signed between
the Yemeni government
signif cantly to the stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan. and the Houthi rebels.
The UNMHA monitors
As of November 2020, the ROK deployed 318 personnel in five countries for the implementation of
the agreement to provide
multinational forces’ peace operations including 306 in the Cheonghae Unit and humanitarian assistance
to Yemen, and does not
12 individually deployed personnel. An overview of the ROK’s participation in fall under the 13 missions
for UN peacekeeping
multinational forces’ peace operations is shown in Chart 6-10 . operations.

Chapter 6. Developing a Robust ROK–US Alliance that is Mutually Complementary and Promoting Defense Exchanges and Cooperation