South Korea becomes 1st Asian country join NATO Cyber Defence Group
Highlights:
- South Korea became the first Asian country join in North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
- South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) is joined as a contributing participant in the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
- Now, the total NATO CCDCOE has 32 countries as its official members which include 27 NATO member countries and 5 five non-NATO states as contributing participants.
- South Korea has participated in the Locked Shields 2022, the largest and most complex annual international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world.
- It has been participating two years in a row since 2020.
- South Korea joining the CCDCOE would help it counter the cybersecurity threat perception due to North Korea.
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