now we're going to get some experts analysis on Seoul's decision to withdraw
from that intelligence show impact with Tokyo as a result of the decision the
pact will now officially come to an end in November I'm glad to say we have
professor kim hyun-wook from the seoul-based Korea national diplomatic
academy on the line for his thoughts now professor Kim we've had slightly over 12
hours to digest this announcement do you think it was a reasonable response to
Japan's trade pressure on Seoul or an ill-advised mistake by the moon jaein
government well from the prism moon Jane's perspective it was due to Japan's
that this kind of conflict between Japan and Korea has escalated so far
it was the historical issue first and then Japanese response was you know
economic and trade issues and now is it's time it's turned for Korea to you
know retorted back in security issues so this is his logic but I would say that
this is no good I mean now what is more important is a security relationship and
security of South Korea and economy relationship between Japan and Korea and
US and Japan and Korea not domestic politics but what is the important thing
now is that you know Prime Minister Abbott and Empress the moon Jane their
driving force for the conflict of Japan and Korea is domestic politics not for
impulses I think that's the problem right and professor there's no doubt
really that this decision is going to severely affect South Korea's national
security some analysts are calling it highly irresponsible even malpractice
what does Seoul for fit by leaving G somya and which country loses out most
or is it just a lose-lose situation for both South Korea and Japan
I think this is a lose-lose situation for South Korea Japan in the United
States I mean us wanted to use the US Japan Korea trololol ISM as a pillar of
its Asia policies and it is still a pillar because it is their locations
Japan and Korea's location is very strategically important to pressure
China South Korea and Japan they have there were there were you know sharing
their information about North Korea issues and it may be maybe China issues
but of course still they have trilateral intelligence sharing almost the u.s. and
Japan and Korea so even though just so Mia's gone they still can share the
information via the United States but as far as some emergent situation is about
for example missiles coming in and and there is some kind of emergence
intelligence sharing between Japan and Korea about the missile defense system
for example in the time that they need for direct intelligence sharing should
be shortened rather than you know we are the United States so that kind of
emergent situation would be something that I'm worrying about but still I
think if they are willing to continue that parallelism and the bilateral
alliances I think you know you know big picture would be still stay put
just quickly before we move on to our next question then if South Korea now
has to go through this third party to get information from Japan before it
used to be real time what kind of time are we looking at now what what what do
you mean time in terms of seconds or minutes or okay as I have said some
emergent situation is something that is related to the bilateral information
sharing between Japan and Korea if this is gone we have Tisa which is a
trilateral intelligence sharing agreement most the u.s. and Japan and
Korea so for example let's assume they're North Korea shoot
and there should be some missile defense capabilities to be operated for example
by Japan or by Korea and by the United States so if J Pan needs to get ready
for the missile defense system visibly North Korean missiles and they have to
get a lot of information from maybe from South Korea and that is such a short
amount of time operations and intelligence so if they try to get the
information of South Korea throughout the United States the time space would
be too much and they would not baby might be not not might might not be
ready for that kind of emotion situations okay so that really gives us
an idea of just how serious this decision was now this spat escalated
quickly as you touched upon before from court rulings on historical issues
wartime forced labor then to trade and now it's security how do you see this
playing out specially given the complete lack of trust between Seoul and Tokyo is
there any way back from this or is it going to continue to spiral out of
control I think from the perspective of domestic politics the Japan and Korea
conflict is win-win situation for Japanese and Korean government that's
irony because Prime Minister Abe a based upon the you know conservative public
opinion supporting his government using that public opinion was to go for the
revised revision of our Constitution so it needs a conflict with South Korea
South Korean government to I mean prism win Jane by you know he's his
willingness to to be determined to Japan and fight with Japan is getting a lot of
support from the public opinion so domestic politics is there I don't think
the conflict will be finished so I think what we need to think about is a very
strong arbitration by the United States or if conflicts escalates and they lose
their support from the public appeal I think there will be the time that
would there would be willing to come and talking and come back to dialog okay
professor Kim thank you very much for making time in your busy schedule to
answer our questions this morning we'll just have to see how this plays out but
like you say for now it isn't looking very good at all thank you thank you