[Role of NATO and Its Allies in 2023] NATO, AP4, and Korea Relations in Flux: A Short Assessment of the NATO Vilnius Summit 2023

► The Vilnius Summit’s focus was simple, but its rationales and consequences reach a wide range of global security dimensions, issues, and regions, changing the fundamental security landscape at every level of analysis.

►  For the first time, the Summit Communiqué confirmed this strategic trend; “The Indo-Pacific is important for NATO, given that developments in that region can directly affect Euro-Atlantic security."

► The restoration of defense industries takes at least a decade or so, resulting in their reaching out to non-NATO like-minded countries from other parts of the world. In fact, they already try hard to fill up their storage from outside including the AP4 countries—Korea and Australia.

► China and AP4 countries have been changing the nature of the two regions’ strategic interaction more two-way rather than one-way.