The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced that Deputy Minister Kang Dong-gil attended the '2025 Indo-Pacific Military High-Level Meeting' held in Hua Hin, Thailand, from the 26th to the 28th as the representative of the JCS Chairman.

The Indo-Pacific Military High-Level Meeting is a representative regional security forum held annually under the auspices of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, aimed at building trust and enhancing cooperation among military high-level officials in the region. The JCS has participated since the first meeting held in 1998.

The attendees of the high-level military meeting in the Indo-Pacific, including General Gang Dong-gil, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's military support headquarters (fifth from the right in the back row), are taking a commemorative photo. /Courtesy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

This year, military high-level representatives from 28 countries in the Indo-Pacific region, including the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and France, attended to discuss regional security issues and ways to enhance cooperation in the region.

Deputy Minister Kang held bilateral meetings with military high-level representatives from the United States, Japan, and New Zealand while exchanging views on practical cooperation methods such as personnel exchanges and training.

Deputy Minister Kang noted, "This meeting was an opportunity to strengthen multilateral military cooperation in the region and build trust, as well as to share the security situation on the Korean Peninsula."

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