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(Yoshihisa Furumori: Sankei Shimbun Washington special correspondent, Reisawa University special professor) (Information gap between Japan and Korea) It was published as a paper in “Defense News” (August 29th issue), a defense issue paper. Maxwell has experience working for the U.S. Army in South Korea and Chief of Staff as an officer of the U.S. Army. His paper, titled “Korea is in the hands of North Korea and its supporting countries,” highlights the errors and dangers that South Korea has decided to abolish an agreement to exchange military information with Japan. It was. The paper was particularly noted that South Korea had no reconnaissance ability to detect military trends inside North Korea using satellites. On the other hand, because Japan has its reconnaissance ability, the destruction of GSOMIA is rather disadvantageous for Korea. In that regard, his paper stated: “Korea and Japan signed an agreement“ GSOMIA ”in November 2016 to exchange military information including secret information on North Korea ’s ballistic missile launch and normal operations. Capabilities are limited to the area only on the south side of the North-South Military Boundary, while the Japanese Self-Defense Force has several reconnaissance satellites that can reconnaissance on North Korean movements on the north side of the military boundary. GSOMIA was an agreement to bridge this information gathering gap between the two countries. '' Mr. Maxwell has not touched on the capabilities of South Korea's reconnaissance satellites, but information from the Korean side that South Korea does not have its own artificial satellite that can reconnaissance within North Korea until now. It was clear. "Rental" of a reconnaissance satellite that was refused If you think about it, this is a surprising reality. For many years, North Korea has regarded South Korea as an open enemy and has always acted as if it were going to take a military offensive. Although it appears that the hostile attitude has recently receded due to the pressure of the Trump administration, North Korea's military threat to South Korea has not changed. South Korea doesn't have a satellite to capture missile launches inside North Korea and the movement of ground forces. According to reports from the Korea Central Daily, the South Korean government launched and operated five reconnaissance satellites in August 2017, four radar-equipped satellites and one infrared sensor-equipped satellite between 2021 and three years. Announced plans to do. However, until 2023, when the plan is completed, that is, for about six years from 2017, there is no way to detect signs of a missile launch in the north. The Korean army came up with the idea of ​​“renting” a reconnaissance satellite and visited other countries. The actual situation was reported in detail in September 2017 by Toshihiko Okada, a member of the Sankei Shimbun. The South Korean government asked Israel, Germany, and France to borrow a reconnaissance satellite, all of which were refused. As a result, South Korea has not had its own North Korean reconnaissance satellite to date. Okada reporters criticized the Korean attitude for reasons such as optimism and neglect. Meanwhile, Japan started a reconnaissance satellite launch program that could detect North Korea's military trends from around 2003 as a self-defense measure against the threat of North Korean tepodon missiles. In 2013, by launching and combining two types of reconnaissance satellites, optical communication satellites and radar satellites, it became possible to detect movements inside North Korea. After that, the satellites have been upgraded and additional launches, and the operation system of two optical communication satellites and five radar satellites is still maintained. In other words, the ability of satellites to collect dangerous military actions inside North Korea is much higher in Japan than in Korea. Maxwell argues that South Korea is not wise to abandon the military information exchange agreement with Japan. Of course, there are many sources of information on North Korea's military trends, such as eavesdropping within North Korea, reports from spies and defectors, in addition to satellites, but the role of reconnaissance satellites is also very large. Needless to say, the ability to collect information on satellites in the US is much higher than in Japan. The Korean government can get the information from the US as before without GSOMIA. However, it seems that measures to block information from Japan are harmless but not profitable. “Betrayal” for the US In this paper, Maxwell also stressed that the destruction of South Korea ’s GSOMIA had a negative impact on the US-ROK alliance. According to the paper, Secretary of Defense Esper of the Trump administration interpreted that GSOMIA's continuation was mutually confirmed when he visited Korea in August and met with President Moon. Therefore, the US side sees this measure of the Bun administration as close to betrayal. * Some excerpts from the link below. Continue with the source https://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/57495 document.write(” + ”); Related article document.write(” + ”);