BANGKOK – South Korea is exploring all options in a bitter trade row with Japan, including scrapping an intelligence sharing pact, but wants a cooling off period with Tokyo, a senior South Korean official said on Saturday.
The trade row escalated on Friday when Japan removed South Korea from a favored trading nations list, prompting Seoul to warn it would not be defeated again by its neighbor, laying bare decades-old war time animosity.
South Korea may consider revoking a military information sharing pact as a countermeasure, a view raised during a trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting with the United States and Japan on Friday in Bangkok, said the South Korean official. (Reuters)
