Japan and South Korea revert back to bickering over export controls

Dispute over deal to resume trade talks and military intel pact spells trouble

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South Korea reversed its decision to end the GSOMIA intelligence-sharing pact with Japan just hours before its expiration. © Reuters

JUNICHI SUGIHARA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japan and South Korea are already quibbling over an 11th-hour agreement announced last Friday to extend a bilateral military intelligence-sharing pact that had been set to expire.

At issue is a policy dialogue over Japan's tougher controls of certain exports to South Korea. The two countries agreed to resume the talks as part of a deal to keep alive the intelligence-sharing pact, formally known as the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA.

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