US kicked out of South Korea and Japan Intel-sharing Pact

In the aftermath of US Presidents, Donald Trumps win; South Korea and Japan have signed an Intel sharing pact due to the threats posed by North Koreas missile and nuclear activities specially of late all without the US as an inter-mediatory partner in-between.

This comes post-South Korean Cabinet meeting that on Tuesday, had approved a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan in order to cope better with the emerging threats from North Korea. Despite strong objections from opposition lawmakers but it seems the armistice pact in lieu of a peace agreement towards the end of the-year two Korea(s) war in the 1950s seems to have played in favor of the Cabinet.

Be that it may, an intelligence-sharing deal was sure to stir up backlash in the opposition and the masses alike due to the still-lingering anti-Japan sentiment; which is the result of Japans vicious 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. With further outrage by advocacy groups for the comfort women that slammed the agreement as a diplomatic humiliation.

Further disarray comes with the timing; many argue the pact could be just another guise by the ruling government as the administration lays fragile as the South Korean President is fighting for her political survival already been having caught up as a suspect in an ongoing corruption investigation.

South Koreas defense ministry that already has deals with 33 countries inclusive of the US and Russia on sharing military intelligence [not including TSI] says Japan has the high-tech equipment and satellites imperative to the defense of the nation against the emerging threats by Northern Korea.