Reuters: Defying U.S. pressure, South Korea to end intelligence pact with Japan
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is set to let lapse an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan on Saturday amid a bitter feud over history and trade, defying mounting U.S. pressure to maintain a key element of their trilateral security cooperation.
The expiry of the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) is likely to intensify discord between South Korea and the United States, which wants its two Asian allies keep their dispute out of security cooperation.
Seoul gave Tokyo three month’s notice in August for ending GSOMIA after Tokyo imposed export controls on South Korea over a dispute stemming from its 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula.
The accord will expire at Saturday midnight unless it is renewed. Both sides are refusing to budge, with Seoul urging Tokyo to lift its trade regulations first. Japan has called for GSOMIA to be maintained.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. is still trying to save this intelligence pact .... Top diplomats of S. Korea, US hold phone talks on GSOMIA, defense cost sharing (Korea Herald).
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I thought J-Pop, K-Pop, and Tairyu would be more beneficial. About a decade ago, there was news on the Taiwan, Korean, Japanese music scene and how it was joint. Apparently, not enough to counter other trends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Wave
I guess the Keiretsu, Chaebol, whatever we have in America, the Chinese oligarchy and the Russian kleptocrats have to duke it out.
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