South Korea Ends Intelligence Sharing Deal With Japan
VAUSE: South Korea has ended a key intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan. This all began as a trade dispute but could now have a global impact because these falling outcomes just as North Korea ramps up missile testing. CNN's David Culver joins us live from Seoul in South Korea. David, first up, specifically what sort of intelligence are we talking about here? How will this impact what is already a scarcity of good intelligence on North Korea?</s>DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's a concern for defense military experts that I've spoken with, really over the past several days about this issue. And they fear that, for example, Japan holds the key to really surveying a lot of northern part of the Korean Peninsula. They've got these satellites that typically the South Korean military can tap into with their assistance and figure out what's going on with their northern neighbors. But I was speaking to the retired Army General, the U.S. Army General who's the commander of the 650,000 combined us South Korean forces up until November of last year, and he's got a lot of concern about this because he says this goes beyond military intelligence, this is all sorts of data that also includes movement of certain forces. So it could be very damaging if this is not communicated directly from South Korea and Japan and vice versa. Now that general also has concerns with how the U.S. is responding to this. I want you to hear what he says.</s>FORMER COMMANDER, U.S.-ROK COMBINED FORCES: So, I do worry quite a bit about how the U.S. will react and we're in government right. Certainly, my military advice would be to stop, take a breath, talk to the Koreans in private and understand it is going and why they did what they did.</s>CULVER: He says understanding the motivation for South Korea could potentially allow that sometime over the next 90 days as this agreement is still in place, mind you, perhaps South Korea and Japan can reach a deal to allow that information to flow again between the two nations, John.</s>VAUSE: OK, David, we appreciate it. Thank you. David Culver there, one of our reporter live in Seoul, thanks. Another crisis filled week at the White House but two of Donald Trump's top advisors are MIA. Where in the world are Jared and Ivanka next on NEWSROOM.