South Korea and Japan agree to resume military relations

report Mehr News Agency Citing Tass, Yomiuri newspaper reported that the governments of Japan and South Korea plan to resume military exchanges between the armies of the two countries, which were suspended in December 2018. Military ties between South Korea and Japan were suspended in 2018 after the South Korean navy locked radar on a Japanese patrol plane, and this disconnect has continued ever since.

According to this report, the parties discussed to organize a meeting of defense ministers during the security conference in Asia between 31 misunderstandings similar to 2018.

The military tension between South Korea and Japan occurred in the Sea of ​​Japan in 2018. At that time, the parties accused each other of escalating the tension. In response to Tokyo’s accusations that the South Korean ship had locked its radar control on the Japanese plane, Seoul denied the fact and accused the Japanese plane of getting too close to the South Korean ship. This incident worsened the relations between the two countries at that time. Currently, both sides are paying attention to the issue of North Korea and their goal is to resolve bilateral differences, especially in the military field.