By Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL (Reuters) -&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;and&nbsp;NATO&nbsp;will expand cooperation on global&nbsp;security&nbsp;issues including Ukraine and North&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;their leaders said on Tuesday on the sidelines of&nbsp;NATO's annual meeting in Lithuania, the&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean presidential office said.
President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived in Vilnius on Monday for the summit of&nbsp;NATO&nbsp;leaders, aiming to step up&nbsp;security&nbsp;ties in the face of evolving nuclear&nbsp;threats&nbsp;from North&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;and tension over China.
Yoon said&nbsp;security&nbsp;in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions were inseparable.
"I came to institutionalise the cooperation framework by creating individually tailored&nbsp;partnership&nbsp;programmes, and to discuss cooperation on military intelligence and&nbsp;cyber&nbsp;areas," Yoon told&nbsp;NATO&nbsp;Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Stoltenberg thanked Yoon for joining condemnation of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and said North&nbsp;Korea's nuclear and missile&nbsp;threats&nbsp;were an important issue that has an impact on&nbsp;NATO&nbsp;and beyond.
South&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;and&nbsp;NATO&nbsp;are expected to agree to expand cooperation in 11 areas, including non-proliferation and&nbsp;cybersecurity, which Stoltenberg said highlighted the significance of their ties.
Yoon, at the&nbsp;NATO&nbsp;gathering with the leaders of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, could face renewed pressure to supply arms to Ukraine, which his administration has resisted doing, wary of Russian influence over North&nbsp;Korea.
Media has reported that&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;had agreed to send artillery rounds to the U.S. to be delivered to Ukraine but&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea's defence ministry said while it was discussing ammunition exports to the U.S., the reports were inaccurate.
Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have urged&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea&nbsp;to&nbsp;boost&nbsp;military support.
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(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; editing by Robert Birsel)

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