Science Minister Lim Hye-sook signs an agreement to join the Artemis Accords. (Photo: Yonhap News)
South Korea has become the latest country to join NASA's Artemis Accords, a U.S.-led effort to send humans to the Moon again by 2024.
Minister of Science and ICT Lim Hye-sook recently signed on to the international program, her office revealed Thursday.
It came as a follow-up to agreements reached last week during President Moon Jae-in's summit with U.S. President Joe Biden.
South Korea is the 10th signatory to the pact.
The U.S., Japan, Britain, Italy and four other countries signed the agreement in October 2010, and Ukraine joined later.
The science ministry said Seoul will seek to work with Washington on other space exploration programs, including a plan to launch a lunar orbiter in August 2022.
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