NATIONAL SECURITY pouicy [Eee where necessary. The Government must also maintain its engagement with international organizations and other international partners on the issue of migration and development as well as other issues affecting their rights. PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Rapid changing the technological face of the advancements world in and greater unimagined access ways. to scientific Scientific and knowledge are technological breakthroughs are creating wealth and progress everywhere, but are also spawning new and increasingly dangerous triggers for global insecurity. Among the most serious of these threats is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), which has come to occupy center stage in international politics. WMDs are classified into three major types: nuclear weapons, chemical warfare agents, and biological warfare agents. Nine nations are currently in possession of such WMDs -- Britain, China, France, India, Israel (assumed), North Korea (claimed), Pakistan, Russia, and the United States - and a number of states are believed to possess chemical and/or biological warfare agents. While the mass killing of people is not a new characteristic of warfare, WMDs pose an unprecedented risk in terms of their potential for large-scale destruction and the indiscriminate nature of their effects. Aside from the dangers posed by existing stockpiles of WMD, there are growing concerns that WMDs and related technologies could spread to more states and nonState terrorist networks. The Philippines will continue to strongly support the global call for greater international collaboration to control the proliferation and use of WMDs. OTHER STRATEGIC ISSUES AND CHALLENGES RISING THREAT OF CYBERCRIME The latest report by PricewaterhouseCoopers’s (PWC) Global Economic Crime Survey revealed that cyber crime is today’s fastest rising economic crime. of cyber crime, Interpol said that more and more criminals Expounding on the nature are exploiting the speed, convenience and anonymity of the Internet to commit a wide range of criminal activities that know no borders, either physical or virtual, cause serious harm and pose very real threats to victims worldwide. Credit card fraud, ATM theft, call center scams, and other computer or web-based forms of deception schemes and identity theft have become increasingly rampant especially in Asia. New and increasingly creative trends in cybercrime are emerging all the time, with estimated costs to the global economy running to billions of dollars. Interpol added 16|Page