WASHINGTON -- The U.S., Japan and South Korea will decide on the location, size and functions of a planned permanent body to oversee trilateral diplomatic cooperation when vice foreign ministers meet later this year, U.S. State Department officials said Monday.
The three partners have agreed to create "a body that coordinates all of the different strands of the trilateral engagement," an official said in a press briefing about a May 31 meeting among U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano and South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun.
