Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, meanwhile, said Friday that he believes that South Korea's 11th hour move to extend the intel-pact with Japan was a "strategic" one.
Abe said he had repeatedly stressed to South Korea, in regards to the intelligence-sharing agreement, the importance of bilateral as well as trilateral cooperation involving the United States in addressing regional issues.
"It's extremely important for Japan and South Korea, as well as the United States, to cooperate… I have repeatedly made that clear," the Japanese premiere said.
"South Korea is believed to have made its decision (over GSOMIA) from such a strategic point," Abe added.
The previous discord over the intel-pact is a result of sinking ties between Tokyo and Seoul owing to a wartime labor dispute between both sides spilling over into a bitter tit-for-tat trade and military dispute.
Japan has stuck to its line that rulings made by South Korea's top courts for Japanese firms to pay compensation to the plaintiffs connected to a row over forced wartime labor, are not in line with international law and run contrary to the foundation of friendly and cooperative relations between the two neighbors since the 1965 normalization of diplomatic ties.
Japan, however, used vast numbers of forced laborers during its brutal 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, although has consistently maintained that the matter of compensation for this was "finally and completely" resolved under the pact and has since doubled-down on its belief that the rulings contravene international law.
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