South Korea says Abe's criticism of its decision to end intelligence sharing pact "unacceptable"

Record ID: 1428754

  • Title: South Korea says Abe's criticism of its decision to end intelligence sharing pact "unacceptable"
  • Date: 27th August 2019
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - AUGUST 2, 2019) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF SOUTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY
  • Embargoed: 10th September 2019 08:20
  • Keywords: foriegn ministry military trade Japan information Abe white list South Korea pact
  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001ATZS4EF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:South Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (August 27) that it won't accept Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's remarks that South Korea has taken actions that "will hurt mutual trust between the two countries".
    Abe, speaking at a news conference after a G7 summit in the French resort town of Biarritz on Monday (August 26), also called for South Korea to "keep promises between states", Japan's Kyodo News reported.
    "Such an argument can never be accepted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," said the ministry's spokesman Kim In-chul at a regular news briefing in Seoul.
    Relations between South Korea and Japan began to deteriorate late last year following a diplomatic row over compensation for wartime forced laborers during Japan's occupation of Korea.
    They soured further when Japan tightened its curbs on exports of high-tech materials needed by South Korea's chip industry, and again this month when Tokyo said it would remove South Korea's fast-track export status.
    South Korea retaliated last week by scraping an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, drawing a swift protest from Tokyo and deepening a decades-old dispute over history that has hit trade and undercut security cooperation over North Korea.
    (Production: Daewoung Kim, Heejung Jung)
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