"South Korea and Japan will hold a third round of working-level talks and tentatively sign the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) next week," Moon said at a press briefing, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.
The negotiations on the pact began in 2012, but ground to a halt as the opposition parties in Japan protested against the deal. After the two first rounds of the talks reopened in November Tokyo and Seoul reportedly agreed on a few major points, including the prohibition to supply third parties with intelligence information without each other's approval and the necessity to inform the other party if the information has been compromised in any way.
The deal is allegedly supposed to help South Korea and Japan counter North Korea's aggression and enable the two countries to exchange information on Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.
