§9231 Sense of Congress on Trilateral Cooperation Between the United States, South Korea, and Japan

Summary

Congress urges the President to strengthen high-level three-way talks and coordination with South Korea and Japan on policy toward North Korea. These talks should cover North Korea’s nuclear, ballistic missile, and conventional weapons programs, its human rights record, and cyber threats. U.S. participants should include the State Department, the Defense Department, and the U.S. intelligence community, and meet regularly with their South Korean and Japanese counterparts. The President should brief Congress regularly. The named congressional committees are the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs Committee, House Armed Services Committee, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.