US officials request renewal of GSOMIA from South Korea at 29:22
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Regarding South Korea ’s decision to abolish military information comprehensive protection agreement = GSOMIA with Japan, a senior US government official said, “It will adversely affect US security interests,” and asked Korea to renew GSOMIA. We asked both Japan and Korea to talk to improve relations.
On September 28, Assistant Secretary Shriver, who oversees policy in the Asia-Pacific region at the US Department of Defense, spoke on defense cooperation between Japan, the United States, and South Korea at a think tank in Washington.
In this, South Korea has decided to abolish GSOMIA, “I have repeatedly told the Moon government that this decision will adversely affect not only Japan and South Korea but also the security interests of the United States.” It was.
On top of that, he said, “The United States asks Korea to update GSOMIA and asks both Japan and Korea to have a meaningful dialogue towards solving the problem.”
Also, when GSOMIA was actually destroyed, there was concern that “information sharing between Japan, the US and South Korea would become inefficient and risk would increase”.