[Scythian]

"Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea have been formal partners of NATO since the early 2010s, part of a slate of “partners across the globe,” but they are seen as an increasingly important subset of NATO's global partners.

There is even an informal nickname for these countries, the Asia-Pacific Four or AP4.8 hours ago"

https://www.google.com/search?q=s+korea+...nz+to+NATO&oq=s+korea+japsn+australia+and+nz+to+NATO&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160l2.33148j0j4&client=ms-android-oppo-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#:~:text=Australia%2C%20Japan%2C%20New,8%20hours%20ago