Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§9231 Sense of Congress on trilateral cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 99— - NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS AND POLICY ENHANCEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREAN PROLIFERATION, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, AND ILLICIT ACTIVITIES › § 9231

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President should strengthen top-level, three-way talks and coordination with South Korea and Japan about North Korea. Those talks must cover North Korea’s nuclear, ballistic missile, and other weapons programs, its human rights record, and cyber threats. They should meet regularly and include U.S. State, Defense, and intelligence officials and their South Korean and Japanese counterparts. The President should also keep these congressional committees informed on a regular basis: in the Senate — Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee on Armed Services, and Select Committee on Intelligence; in the House — Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Armed Services, and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §9231

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(a)It is the sense of Congress that the President—

(1)should seek to strengthen high-level trilateral mechanisms for discussion and coordination of policy toward North Korea between the Government of the United States, the Government of South Korea, and the Government of Japan;

(2)should ensure that the mechanisms specifically address North Korea’s nuclear, ballistic, and conventional weapons programs, its human rights record, and cybersecurity threats posed by North Korea;

(3)should ensure that representatives of the United States, South Korea, and Japan meet on a regular basis and include representatives of the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Defense, the United States intelligence community, and representatives of counterpart agencies in South Korea and Japan; and

(4)should continue to brief the relevant congressional committees regularly on the status of such discussions.

(b)The relevant committees referred to in subsection (a)(4) shall include—

(1)the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and

(2)the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 9231

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73