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South Korea and Japan have signed a military intelligence-sharing agreement that will allow the two countries to share confidential information on North Korea's imminent threats.
Kim Hyun-bin reports.
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo and Japanese Ambassador to Korea Yasumasa Nagamine signed the bilateral military intelligence-sharing agreement on Wednesday at the Defense Ministry in Seoul.
With that, the two allies can now directly share intelligence information on North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
The two allies initiated the agreement back in 2012, but it was scrapped due to protests from opposition parties and civic groups, who claimed that the process was not transparent.
Many Koreans are also against the pact because of the history of Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945... and lingering unresolved issues between the two countries.
However, North Korea's ever-growing nuclear and missile threats revived efforts to resume the talks earlier this month.
Japan has five intelligence satellites, six Aegis destroyers, four ground-radar systems and other state-of-the-art surveillance equipment to put toward the effort.
South Korea currently shares military intelligence with 32 countries, including the U.S. and Russia.
Kim Hyun-bin, Arirang News.
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