South Korea to withdraw from intelligence-sharing pact with Japan

A South Korean protester holds up signs reading ‘No Abe’s government’ during an anti-Japanese rally in central Seoul on August 13 2019. Picture: AFP/JUNG YEON-JE

Kim cited Japan’s recent decision to remove South Korea from a list of trusted export countries, saying it “brought about a significant change to the environment of defence co-operation”. He said, “South Korea judged that maintaining an agreement meant for the exchange of sensitive military information is not fitting for our national interests.”

Japan has similar agreements on military information with other countries, including the US and Australia. Japan, South Korea and the US also have a trilateral information-sharing pact Kim Hyun-wook, a professor at the Korean National Diplomatic Academy who specialises in US-South Korean relations, said the leaders of both countries had domestic incentives to take a firm stand in a dispute rooted in Japan’s 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean Peninsula.

Relations between the two countries have sunk to their lowest point in decades since the South Korean supreme court ruled a Japanese company was liable to pay compensation to Korean former conscripted workers and their families. Japan says all such claims were settled under a 1965 treaty, while the South Korean courts said that agreement did not cover emotional pain and suffering.

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