section_path: Political positions/Foreign policy/Japan
section_name: Japan
paragraph_text: Japan
  
  In regards to relations with Japan, Lee promotes a "two track strategy" to actively promote economic, social, and diplomatic exchange and cooperation while also resolutely dealing with historical issues, territorial sovereignty, and the life and safety of the people.
  
  Lee has a certain pro-American tendency, such as strong support for military alliance and military cooperation with the United States, but he is very opposed to military training between the three countries in which Japan participates and accuses conservatives who support it as "far-right chinil acts" (극단적 친일 행위).
  
  In 2016, Lee said in an interview with an NHK reporter that Japan is South Korea's de facto 'enemy country' in military. He argues that if Japan increases its military power, it will be the first to invade South Korea. However, while critical of " Japanese imperialism " (일본 제국주의), Lee is not opposed to the South Korea-Japan military agreement, GSOMIA (지소미아), to maintain friendly relations with the United States, which calls for military cooperation between South Korea and Japan. GSOMIA is known to be what the United States demands from South Korea and Japan.
  
  On 1 March 2018, Lee said that Japan which he referred to as "an aggressor country" (침략국가), rather than Korea, should have been divided into two countries following the Pacific War. Lee claimed that Korea, not Japan, was wrong to be divided.