Canada is a traditional close partner1 of South Korea and occupies a unique strategic position linking the Indo-Pacific, the Arctic, and NATO. South Korea and Canada declared a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) in 2022, and Security and Defense Cooperation Partnership (SDCP) in 2025 The latter is the first partnership of its kind that Canada has established with a nation in the Indo-Pacific, specifically South Korea. It serves as a foundation for the regular review of bilateral security cooperation, emcompassing the expansion of military exercises, coordination on the enforcement of sanctions against North Korea, and the sharing of defense technologies. Most recently, the South Korean Cabinet approved South Korea’s military intelligence-sharing pact with Canada to establish a formal legal basis for intensifying bilateral cooperation.