US, Japan and South Korea sign an Arctic Pacific partnership memorandum

The State Department said Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun on the margins of the G20 in Atlanta. They signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for a "Trilateral Arctic Pacific Partnership (TAPP) to explore maritime cooperation and economic partnership in the Pacific Arctic." They also reviewed implementation of the trilateral Memorandum of Cooperation on Small Modular Reactor Deployments, signed in Ankara on July 7.