“The GSOMIA (Intelligence Information Exchange Treaty) is designed to exchange military information based on a high degree of trust between the two countries. We have no more reason to keep GSOMIA in the context when Japan has already undermined the basis of trusting relations with South Korea, ”RIA Novosti quoted Kim Hyun Jong as second deputy secretary of the South Korean Presidential Administration for Security.
He clarified that after the contract expires, the parties may lack intelligence, so further information will be exchanged through the United States in accordance with the 2014 trilateral agreement.
“A tripartite agreement on the exchange of information between the United States, Japan and South Korea, signed in December 2014, according to which information is exchanged through channels through the United States, will be involved,” the representative of the South Korean administration said.
Earlier, the Japanese Foreign Ministry called the Ambassador of South Korea and protested because Seoul refused to extend the treaty on comprehensive protection of military information.
In South Korea, they explained their decision by changing the conditions of cooperation between the two countries in the field of security against the background of the introduction of export restrictions by Japan.