North Korea and China are huge winners in the worsening Japan-South Korea spat CNN · by Analysis by Joshua Berlinger, CNN Though the only two liberal democracies in the region, Seoul and Tokyo are essentially friends of convenience thanks to each country's treaty alliance with the US. They're historic adversaries, and the legacy of Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula in the first half of

Critically for Washington’s interests in the highly strategic region, GSOMIA represented the only official alliance tie between the militaries of the two Northeast Asian democracies and US allies. The two countries are frequently at loggerheads over territorial and historical issues, but relations are in virtual crisis at present as they indulge in a trade war that has, as of yesterday, spilled ov

The U.S. government has an important role to play in mediating the relationship between Tokyo and Seoul and protecting vital trilateral security coordination. Japan and South Korea have recently imposed rulings that impact each other’s financial interests—and risk triggering a strategic trade war. Strained bilateral economic relations undermine U.S. diplomatic and security coordination that is nec

1. What is GSOMIA? Why is canceling the agreement the worst possible thing President Moon could have done? And why… https://t.co/gV9eEA8P4M

Seoul's decision is exceedingly ill-advised and works against South Korea's strategic objectives. The GSOMIA enable… https://t.co/Yz5EtJoj4b

日本と韓国が外交と貿易をめぐって仲たがいしている。韓国政府は22日、日本との軍事情報包括保護協定（GSOMIA）を破棄すると発表した。

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, left, and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June.Credit...Pool photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon A fast-escalating trade war between South Korea and Japan took a dangerous turn this week when the Koreans abandoned a military intelligence-sharing agreement with the Japanese, weakening an important source of information on North Kor

This is a bad idea, but I don’t think a lot of western analysts realize that the S Korea left doesn’t share the GSO… https://t.co/MpxK507MgO

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Pulling out of the intelligence sharing agreement with Japan will only hurt Korea’s security. On Thursday, South Korea’s Moon Jae-in administration decided not to extend an intelligence sharing agreement with Japan following escalating diplomatic tensions between the two nations. Escalation is a legitimate tool of statecraft, but it pays to know who one’s true enemies really are. South Korea faces

In a stunning move that could further upend already fraying ties between Japan and South Korea, Seoul on Thursday announced that it would scrap a key intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo, with the South's presidential Blue House saying in a statement that it did not meet Seoul's "national interests" to maintain the deal amid the intensifying spat between the two neighbors. Citing a "grave change"

South Korean protesters react as they hear the news that Seoul has scrapped its intelligence-sharing agreement with Tokyo. The signs they are holding called for the deal to be abolished. (Lee Jin-Man/Associated Press)