An idea to ask Korea to review GSOMIA destruction October 26, 22:02
A senior official of the US State Department has expressed the idea that South Korea will review its decision to abandon it in order to avoid the expiry of the Japan-Korea military information comprehensive protection agreement = “GSOMIA” about a month later.
The Japan-Korea Military Information Comprehensive Protection Agreement = “GSOMIA” will cease to be effective on November 23, one month later, following the decision of the Korean side to destroy it.
Regarding this, Assistant Secretary of State Stillwell, who is responsible for East Asian diplomacy in the United States, responded to a reporter's interview in Tokyo on the 26th, while not acting as an intermediary as the United States, “find a creative solution in Japan and Korea. I strongly encourage you to do that. "
In addition, GSOMIA stated that it would be beneficial to the three countries, Japan, the US, and South Korea, and that it would ask South Korea to review its decision to discard it in order to avoid revocation.
Stillwell, on the other hand, said North Korea's launch of SLBM = a submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier this month, “a different threat”, indicating that it is seriously perceived as a different quality threat from short-range ballistic missiles. It was.
And when North Korea claimed a breakup for a US concession in a US-Practitioner consultation, he said, “It ’s a threat that North Korea has done,” and “ For the benefit of, ”he expressed his desire to continue dialogue with North Korea.