U.S. not forewarned of South Korea's move to end intel pact with Japan

The United States was not forewarned of South Korea's recent decision to terminate a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan that helps the U.S. allies counter missile threats from North Korea, a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday.Noting that there have been "consultations" over the issue, Randall Schriver, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said at a Washington think tank, "In terms of the actual decision to not renew (the pact), we were not forewarned."His remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies came as the U.S. governmen…READ FULL ARTICLE