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South Korea is welcome to join NATO anytime they want!
They can't it is in the name. Same reason Australia and Japan can't join. Even if we wanted them to.
The name could always be reformed to more accurately describe the alliance, Like World Ocean Treaty Organization or WOTO.
True, but I am sure most countries would be opposed to that. While Europe shares a lot with above countries, few would be willing to be forced to jump in order to defend them. Many, most or even all would do so, but they would abhore to be forced to do so by a treaty.