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The Blue House has decided to end the military information protection agreement between us and Japan. It is not in the national interest to continue to share sensitive military information with Japan in the current situation where Japan has retaliated against us for its security problems without clear evidence. Today's (22th) 8 o'clock news will take a closer look at the background of the decision and its impact.

First, reporter Kim Jung-yoon will deliver the Blue House announcement today.

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After the National Security Council and NSC meetings this afternoon, the first president of the Blue House Security Office officially announced the end of the agreement.

[Kim Yu-geun / Deputy Chief of Security Office of Cheong Wa Dae (NSC Secretary): Korea and Japan have decided to end the 'military secret information protection' and 'Jisomia'. Will be notified.]

The Blue House says the security information exchange agreement cannot be continued when the Japanese government removes South Korea from the white list for security reasons.

[Kim Yu-geun, Deputy Director of the Blue House's Security Office (NSC Secretary): In this situation, the government decided that it would not be in our national interest to continue the agreement signed for the purpose of security-sensitive exchange of military information.]

The Blue House's key official decided that the NSC Standing Committee had decided to end, reported to President Moon Jae-in for about an hour, and explained that the president was approved.

There were many opinions that the agreement should be maintained until the end of July, but since then, Japan has not responded to the proposal, and after careful consideration of various measures, it finally decided to end the agreement according to the principle.

We reviewed the effectiveness of the agreement and its relations with the United States. First of all, we concluded that the effectiveness of maintaining the agreement was not very large.

He has been working closely with the United States, and he said that the United States understands our position.

Even if the agreement ends, Cheong Wa Dae explained that there will be no security gap because it will be able to cooperate with Japan through the Korea-US information sharing agreement if necessary.

(Video coverage: Park Seung-won and Shin Dong-hwan, Video editing: Jung Sung-hoon)

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