North Korea and China are huge winners in the worsening Japan-South Korea spat | Analysis by j_berlingerCNN
Hong Kong The cracks in the relationship between South Korea and Japan are deepening -- undercutting security cooperation on North Korea and potentially handing a win to China.
South Korea announced Thursday it would abandon a military intelligence sharing agreement with Japan in the next few months as part of an increasingly vicious trade war that is mired in historical animosity. But the decision to leave the agreement is a significant blow to the United States-led military alliance, that for decades has helped broker peace in Northeast Asia, while pushing back against increasing Chinese influence.
Japan escalates trade war with South Korea 02:01What this doesPractically speaking, abandoning the intelligence sharing agreement will slow things down. Let's say North Korea test-fires another short range missile, something they've done with increasing frequency this summer. The data South Korean intelligence can glean from that test, like how far, fast and high the missile goes, can reveal important details about the weapon's sophistication.
Official: North Korea launches more short range missiles 02:28What this meansThough the only two liberal democracies in the region, Seoul and Tokyo are essentially friends of convenience thanks to each country's treaty alliance with the US. They're historic adversaries, and the legacy of Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula in the first half of the 20th century looms large. Under Japanese rule, many Koreans were brutalized, murdered and enslaved.
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