Although the US-Korea-Japan trilateral relationship may face new challenges under the incoming Donald Trump administration, cooperation between the three countries will likely persist.
A potential change of government in Seoul could challenge the endurance of the institutions of trilateral security cooperation so assiduously built in 2024.
A stronger relationship between the US, Korean, and Japanese legislatures will ensure that this critical framework survives and prospers.
The section of the trilateral joint statement focusing on North Korea underlines the distance between Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing.
Amidst a shifting global economic order, the meeting brought a new sense of dynamism to economic cooperation among the three countries.
South Korea’s rapprochement with Japan and North Korea’s embrace of Russia significantly shaped events on the Korean Peninsula in 2023. Both promise to have a…
The intensity, level, and sweep of trilateral cooperation we have seen in the past year has gone beyond any previous efforts.
The August 18, 2023 summit at Camp David was rightly hailed as a breakthrough moment for Japan, South Korea, and the United States.
The “Spirit of Camp David” pledged that the three countries would make the Indo-Pacific “thriving, connected, resilient, stable, and secure.”
Although the vision outlined at Camp David has potential to advance U.S.-Japan-Korea objectives, there remain obstacles to its success.