U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral

The United States may have to play a leading role if it wants to see relations between Seoul and Tokyo improve.

South Korea’s foreign minister traveled to China while the country’s national security chief attended a meeting with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts in Washington.

A trilateral meeting between Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. reaffirms joint efforts on the denuclearization of North Korea.

If the FOIP strategy is to succeed, the two countries have some work to do.

The U.S. should encourage trilateral cooperation with South Korea and Japan to fight the pandemic, with an eye toward saving the Tokyo Games.

Seoul had threatened to withdraw from the agreement amid bilateral tensions with Tokyo.

What does American leadership even mean?

Insisting that Seoul rejoin GSOMIA may make South Korea more skeptical about Washington’s ability to arbitrate impartially.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited Tokyo and Seoul in an attempt to insulate security cooperation from rising tensions.

Washington's mediation may provide a temporary fix, but not a long-term resolution to the core problems.

A trilateral meeting of the Japanese, Korean, and U.S. defense ministers was a small step forward amid icy Japan-South Korea relations.