NATO-type Southeast Asian security group not feasible, Philippines minister says

NATO stand for North Atlantic Territory Organization, not Pacific.

So Philippines is really make sense in this case.

NATO stand for North Atlantic Territory Organization

The title of the article is "NATO-type" not "NATO".

Poorer nations would have trouble supporting a NATO-like organization and the massive costs that entails. Richer nations in Asia could make a defense treaty, but the distances between them makes providing support to each other very difficult logistically.

As global power continues to rebalance, discussions around cooperative defense agreements in Asia will likely evolve, even if they don’t mimic NATO exactly.