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South Korea begins process to normalize GSOMIA intel pact with Japan

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Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's president, left, and Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister, shake hands following a joint news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, March 16, 2023. The leaders of South Korea and Japan pledged at a rare summit in Tokyo their readiness to end a long-simmering dispute that had hurt security and trade tries, and work with their mutual US ally to counter threats from the likes of North Korea. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

Tokyo, 18 March, /AJMEDIA/

South Korea’s Defense Ministry has initiated a process to normalize a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan following an agreement between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol during their breakthrough summit on Thursday.

The South Korean Defense Ministry said it sent a letter to the country’s Foreign Ministry asking for measures to normalize the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) deal, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported late Friday, citing unidentified officials.

Japan’s Defense Ministry on Friday welcomed the stable implementation of the pact, but the exact measures Seoul was seeking were unclear.

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