The South Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration said in a commentary that the extension of GSOMIA disappointed the people who trusted in the "government".

It revealed that the agreement is to induce south Korea to join in the U.S.-Japan alliance in the strategic interests of the U.S.

That's why the U.S. forced the extension, said the internet newspaper, continuing that the agreement, which comes to be a serious threat to peace of the Korean peninsula, can never be allowed even though Japan withdrew its economic retaliatory measures.

On the same day the People for Achieving Peace and Reunification issued a commentary to condemn the authorities for deciding the extension of GSOMIA against the public opinion.

It stressed that the agreement must be terminated for the sake of peace in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia.