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- In November 2022, South Korea established its mission to NATO, providing Seoul with a permanent official representation to the organisation.
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
- 1949 - The 12 Founding Members
- 1952 - The Accession of Greece and Türkiye
- 1955 - The Accession of Germany
- 1982 - The Accession of Spain
- 1999 - The First Wave of Post-Cold War Enlargement
- 2004 - The Second Wave of Post-Cold War Enlargement
- 2009 - The Accession of Albania and Croatia
- 2017 - The Accession of Montenegro
- 2020 - The Accession of North Macedonia
- 2023 – The Accession of Finland
On 4 April 1949, the Foreign Ministers from 12 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty(also known as the Washington Treaty) at the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, D.C. NATO's founding member countries were: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United St...
Three years after the signing of the Washington Treaty, on 18 February 1952, Greece and Türkiye joined NATO. This enabled NATO to reinforce its southern flank. At a time when there was a fear of communist expansion throughout Europe and other parts of the world (for example, Soviet support of the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950), exten...
Germany became a NATO member on 6 May 1955. This was the result of several years of deliberations among western leaders and Germany, whose population opposed any form of rearmament. Following the end of the Second World War, finding ways of integrating the Federal Republic of Germany into western European defence structures was a priority. The Fede...
Spain joined the Alliance on 30 May 1982 despite considerable public opposition. The end of Franco's dictatorship in 1975, the military coup in 1981 and the rise of the Socialist Party (PSOE, the leading opposition party which was initially against NATO accession), made for a difficult social and political context, both nationally and international...
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact after the end of the Cold War opened up the possibility of further NATO enlargement. Some of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe were eager to become integrated into Euro-Atlantic institutions. In 1995, the Alliance carried out and published the results of a Study on N...
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia were invited to begin accession talks at the Alliance's Prague Summit in 2002. On 29 March 2004, they officially became members of the Alliance, making this the largest wave of enlargement in NATO history. All seven countries had participated in the MAP before acceding to NATO.
When they were partners, Albania and Croatia worked with NATO in a wide range of areas, with particular emphasis on defence and security sector reform, as well as support for wider democratic and institutional reform. Albania had participated in the MAP since its inception in 1999 and Croatia joined in 2002. In July 2008, they both signed Accession...
Shortly after regaining its independence in June 2006, Montenegro joined the Partnership for Peace in December of the same year and the Membership Action Plan three years later. It actively supported the NATO-led operation in Afghanistan from 2010 and provided support to the follow-on mission. Developing the interoperability of its forces and pursu...
North Macedonia became independent in 1991 and joined NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme in 1995 and the Membership Action Plan in 1999. For a short period between 2001 and 2003 and on the request of Skopje, NATO conducted three peace-support operations in the country. Before becoming a member of the Alliance, North Macedonia cooperated w...
NATO's cooperation with Finland began when it joined the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme in 1994. Over the subsequent decades, Finland became one of NATO's most active partners and a valued contributor to the Alliance's activities, including NATO-led operations and missions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Finnish cooperation with NATO w...
Mar 4, 2024 · In the same year, South Korea became the first east Asian country to join a NATO Centre of Excellence by sending cyber experts from its national intelligence service to participate in the work of the NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), 2 located in Tallinn, Estonia.
Sep 28, 2022 · The approval came after the South Korean government announced its plan to set up the mission, on the occasion of President Yoon Suk-yeol's attendance at the 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain, in...
Relations between South Korea and NATO have been deepening at a striking pace recently. Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean president to attend a NATO Summit in 2022 and in the same year, Seoul opened its diplomatic mission to NATO in Brussels.
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Jun 30, 2022 · South Korea has already become the first Asian country to join NATO’s cyber-defense unit based in Estonia. And Russia has already labeled South Korea an “unfriendly nation” because it joined the sanctions regime against Russia. South Korea’s relationship with Russia, already strained, will continue to worsen.
Sep 12, 2014 · In July 2024, NATO and the Republic of Korea signed an agreement on mutual recognition for military airworthiness certification, which ensures the safety and airworthiness of all air assets used by NATO Allies and partners. It marks NATO’s first such deal with an Asian country.
