U.S. Defense Secretary Fails to Convince South Korean President To Reverse Decision on GSOMIA Withdrawal
As I predicted there was no way that the Moon administration was going to reverse course on withdrawing from the GSOMIA. Promoting anti-Japanese sentiment is literally the only issue his party has to run on for the parliamentary elections coming up early next year. Reversing the decision on the GSOMIA would have been a major loss of face for the Moon administration:
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper told South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday he will try to persuade Japan to “smoothly” resolve the dispute over the two neighbors’ military information-sharing arrangement, according to the presidential office.
During a 50-minute meeting with Esper at Cheong Wa Dae, Moon explained his government’s basic position that it’s “difficult to share military information” with Japan, which has imposed export restrictions against South Korea for a stated reason that Seoul is not trustworthy as a security partner, Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Ko Min-jung said.
In late August, the Moon administration decided not to renew the General Security of Military Agreement (GSOMIA) and it’s slated to expire as of next Saturday.
Yonhap
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Chairman Moon is a serious threat to the security of the South Korean people.
It wasn’t for a lack of trying on the part of Mr Esper and GEN Milley. They made a compelling argument that no agreement only benefits nK and China.
And HAVING an agreement is nothing but beneficial to S. Korea’s security. So what is Moon’s answer for not extending the agreement? Moon? Bueller? Bueller?
Between GSOMIA, not opening the THAAD access road, etc., a painful message needs to be sent to Moon-pie. The SMA should now double-down on the $5B price tag; “I’m afraid there is no more negotiating room. You alone, Mr Moon, forced this issue”.
Mcgeehee, I may be old and cynical… Wait. I am old and cynical; but that’s not relevant.
Moon doesn’t want to do the hard work of negotiating a deal to keep South Korea safe from the communists because he wants South Korea to be communist.
I would love to be proven wrong. But I can’t see a bit of evidence to the contrary.
Emperor Xi is loving this.
I would say commie moon is a fool, but he can follow orders from Beijing.
Someone good at drawing cartoons should depict the SS Meredith Victory, Moon’s parents, a look into the future, and them deciding to stay behind: “That’s okay. We’re better off staying here”.
…raising our son here.
Or some such thing.
Mcghee….Moon’s backstory is all lies and fabrications
Moon doing his best to go home.
Whether Moon’s were rescued from communists or not, it’s quite interesting that he seems bound to become one.
What makes a person so arrogant that they believe they can rule over a nation like that?