Blue House Threatening to End Security Pact With Japan Over Export Dispute

The tensions between South Korea and Japan could end up having security impacts as well if the Blue House seeks to end the GSOMIA which authorizes the two countries to share intelligence information:

This photo, taken May 17, 2019, shows South Korea’s top presidential security advisor, Chung Eui-yong, speaking during a press conference at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul. (Yonhap)

 A rancorous diplomatic spat between South Korea and Japan is casting doubts over the fate of a military intelligence-sharing pact seen as a rare symbol of their trust and a key platform for trilateral security cooperation involving the United States.

The tussle that started from a simmering row over Japan’s wartime forced labor has been escalating into the economic domain with Tokyo’s July 4 measure to tighten restrictions on exports to South Korea of key industrial materials. 

It is now feared to be spilling over into the security realm, apparently putting Washington on edge as the U.S. is keen on firming up cooperation with its two Asian allies to promote regional stability amid North Korea’s lingering threats and China’s growing assertiveness.

The General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) between Seoul and Tokyo is automatically renewed every year unless either side expresses its intent to rescind it 90 days ahead of the end of its extendable one-year period.

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You can read more at the link, but clearly the Moon administration is willing to bargain with the GSOMIA because they feel the current peace process with North Korea means intelligence from Japan is not needed.

However, this whole dispute could be ended today if the Moon administration does not move forward with seizing the assets of Japanese companies in South Korea. However, the Moon administration miscalculated in their Japan bashing and have gone so far now it is hard politically for the Moon administration to change course.

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Korea needs to honor the treaty agreements made with Japan. All this has been caused by commie moon’s stupidity.

setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

All Moon is going to do is hurt South Koreans… 😥

jon paul
jon paul
5 years ago

The paranoid side of me thinks Moon’s endgame all along was to dent or even end the treaty arrangements with Japan, and the super-paranoid side of me might even think that this was the price Kim Jong-Un extracted from him for some sort of unification or confederation agreement.

setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

Moon is going to find out the hard way that he’s not “woke” enough.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

commie moon being run by red china, won’t do or say anything against the masters in Beijing

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