BANGKOK -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo failed to break up a diplomatic brawl between Japan and South Korea at a three-way meeting Friday on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Bangkok.
The trilateral meeting came after the Japanese government formally decided to to remove South Korea from the "white list" of 27 countries to which it grants preferential trade status. The move strips South Korea of streamlined access to Japanese goods. South Korea later vowed to take the same measures against Japan, removing its neighbor from South Korea's white list.
