The inconsistency was revealed in the summit negotiations between Korea and Japan as the US Deputy Secretary of State began to restore the trilateral system between the US and Japan.
The strategic schedule of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to restore the 8th US-Korea-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Japan on the 21st and hold the Korea-Japan summit in Japan on the 23rd seems to have put a brake on the negotiations on the agenda for the summit.
The US State Department announced on the 15th that Deputy Secretary Sherman will visit Japan from the 18th to the 21st, hold the 8th U.S.-Korea-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the 21st, and then visit Korea until the 23rd and conduct strategic consultations in Mongolia.
The Korea-U.S.-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers Meeting, which was suspended under the Republican Trump regime, was maintained until October 2017, leading the East Asian diplomatic strategy of the Democratic Obama administration.
The US State Department announced the 'triangular cooperation plan on regional security issues' and 'climate change and international health' as agenda for the Korea-U.S.-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers' Meeting. It was marked as 'strengthening strategic cooperative relations' and classified as a low strategic relation compared to the upper level policy.
The US State Department described Deputy Secretary Sherman's visit to Asia as "a reaffirmation of his will to work with allies and partners to promote peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific, and to maintain a normative international order," implying the establishment of a response system for China .
The US State Department described the visit to Mongolia as “common interests such as democracy and human rights, freedom of religion and respect for traditional culture,” suggesting a means of pressure targeting China’s human rights situation in Xinjiang.
At the last Korea-U.S.-Japan Vice Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Seoul in October 2017, Japan demanded the signing of a NATO-style ACSA (Acquisition and Cross-Serving Agreement), the Japanese media reported at the time.
ACSA, led by the United States, is a logistical support agreement between the United States and its allies that provides mutual flexibility in materials and services, such as communications, transportation, food, fuel, etc. in joint military exercises.
The United States signed agreements with Korea, Japan, and Egypt in addition to 10 of the NATO member states.
“President Moon Jae-in has decided not to visit Japan on the occasion of the Tokyo Olympics,” said Park Soo-hyun, senior presidential secretary for public communication at the Blue House, at a briefing on the afternoon of the 19th. It is still insufficient, and this decision was made after comprehensive consideration of other circumstances.”
Japan's Yomiuri reported in the morning that "the governments of both Korea and Japan plan to hold the first face-to-face summit between Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and President Moon on the 23rd in time for the Tokyo Olympics."
In 2017, the Moon Jae-in administration took the lead in military augmentation through the Trump Republican regime’s power-based diplomacy and adopted a high growth rate of 7% to surpass Japan’s defense expenditure, and it seems that the Biden Democratic administration’s re-launch of ACSA for disarmament was rejected.