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The Blue House decides today (22 days) whether to extend the ROK-Japan Military Information Protection Agreement, which has been hard to dispose of as a response card to Japan's economic retaliation measures. It is known that there are last-minute considerations about the extension of the agreement itself, but the conditional extension that does not exchange information for the time being.

Reporter Kim Ji-sung reports.

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The Blue House today holds the NSC, the National Security Council's standing committee.

The meeting will discuss whether to extend the Korea-Japan Military Information Protection Agreement.

After further discussions, the Blue House official said, Moon will finalize the extension.

The results are likely to be announced by the Justice National Security Office or the First Deputy National Security Office.

The Blue House said it was determined until yesterday that it was not determined until yesterday.

[Kim Sang-jo / President of Cheong Wa Dae (Yesterday, Korea Broadcast Journalist Club Debate): In terms of whether it is appropriate to exchange sensitive military information with a country that does not trust Korea, we plan to think and make prudent decisions until the last minute.]

The deadline for deciding whether to extend the agreement is the day after tomorrow.

By this time, the agreement will automatically be extended for one year unless either of the two countries announces refusal to extend.

Considering the importance of US-Japan security cooperation, we are considering extending the agreement and not exchanging information with Japan for the time being.

However, the voice of refusing to extend is not enough, and the end-of-life concerns will continue.

A Blue House official said the results will be announced as early as today and no later than tomorrow.