(Photo: South Korea's Defense Ministry)

The Seoul Defense Dialogue will bring together some 800 high-level security officials and civil defense experts from 56 countries. Three plenary sessions will cover the international community's response to nuclear threat escalation on the Korean peninsula, efforts to create a free, peaceful, prosperous Indo-Pacific region, and regional and global cooperation in a new security environment.

Four special sessions will also be held to discuss ways to enhance maritime security in the Indo-Pacific, the global defense industry's outlook, the use of artificial intelligence in combat, and the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice.