South Korea is likely to cooperate more with us in countering nuclear proliferation:
"It is appropriate to examine whether there is a way to more actively participate" in the Proliferation Security Initiative, Foreign Minister-designate Yu Myung-hwan said during a one-day parliamentary hearing on his appointment.
The PSI was launched in 2003 primarily to deter trade in missile and nuclear technology by states such as North Korea and Iran.
Participating countries hold maritime drills to stop and search ships suspected of carrying nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, materials to make them or missiles to deliver them.
South Korea has only been an observer to the PSI program and has previously balked at U.S. requests to become a full member so as not to provoke North Korea.
Our ability to strengthen existing alliances and build new ones appears quite strong, if you ask me.
