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    South Korea To Scrap Military Intelligence-Sharing Agreement With Japan

    A South Korean security official says the pact "does not serve our national interest." Japan's foreign minister says Seoul's decision "completely misreads the security situation."
    by Sasha Ingber Aug 22, 2019 2 minutes
    South Korea has announced it will withdraw from a 2016 military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan. Here, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, center, and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, trailing at left, walk in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Thursday.

    Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET

    South Korea plans to terminate a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, prompting concerns about security cooperation between Seoul, Tokyo and Washington as North Korea's nuclear and missile threats loom over the Korean Peninsula.

    It's the latest breakdown between Seoul and Tokyo: Earlier this month, Japan removed South Korea from its "whitelist" of favored trade partners, prompting a retaliation in kind.

    The Blue House, South Korea's in 2016 as a way for the two countries to exchange valuable information on potentialthreats posed by North Korea, China and Russia.

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