Japan-Korea GSOMIA Policy to wait for departure while requesting response from the Korean side November 18 5:12
Japan-Korea Military Information Comprehensive Protection Agreement expires this week due to a decision to destroy Korea. Defense Minister Kono met with the defense minister of South Korea on the 17th and asked for a wise response, but it ended with a parallel line, and the government is planning to wait for Korea to go out while seeking a response.
As Japan-Korea relations worsen, the military information comprehensive protection agreement between both countries = GSOMIA will expire on the 23rd of this week due to the decision of the Korean side to destroy it.
Defense Minister Kono met with defense minister Jeon Kyung Duo in Bangkok, Thailand, on the 17th, visited with the US Secretary of Defense Esper, and North Korea repeatedly launched ballistic missiles. Confirmed security cooperation.
On top of that, Minister Kono told Defense Minister Chung, “If the recognition that cooperation is necessary, the Korean side will need to take a sensible response,” Secretary Esper also said that Korea will abandon the agreement. Restated the idea that the decision should be reviewed.
On the other hand, Defense Minister Chung strongly urged the Japanese side to change its attitude, assuming that the responsibility for deciding to do so is in Japan with enhanced export control, and the talk ended in parallel.
Afterwards, Defense Minister Chung spoke to Minister Kono in Japanese at the cocktail party held in front of the ASEAN = Southeast Asian Union Confederation Defense Ministers' dinner. The minister once again asked for the wise response of the Korean side.
While the Japanese government has strengthened the view that “the expiration of the agreement is inevitable”, it is a policy to wait for Korea ’s departure while seeking sensible responses to the last minute based on the fact that the United States is working hard.