The General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) between Seoul and Tokyo will soon reach its final stage, the South Korean Defense Ministry (MND) said on Friday.

Allowing both sides to exchange classified military information on the DPRK directly; Monday’s news of the tentative agreement sparked an angry reaction from North Korea.

“This hideous act of treachery aimed to stifle the fellow countrymen in the north in league with the sworn enemy of the nation is a dangerous act of pushing the already tense situation on the Korean peninsula,” the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said on Thursday.

Criticizing South Korean