They’ll come amid rising tensions stemming from a June 13 incident in which a U.S. Army armored vehicle struck and killed two South Korean girls.

Discussions on the status of forces agreement will be a follow-up to a meeting Wednesday in which officials of both nations discussed how to improve the pact.

No dates have been set for the talks, but they are expected soon, U.S. Forces Korea officials said.

Among those at Wednesday’s high-level meeting in Seoul were Korea’s Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tae-sik; Director General Cha Young-koo, of the Defense Ministry’s Policy Planning Bureau; Evans Revere, charge’ d’Affaires from the U.S. Embassy here, and Gen. Charles Campbell, chief of staff of U.S. Forces Korea and commander of the 8th U.S. Army.

A USFK statement attributed to Campbell said both sides want a special task force to seek ways to improve operation of the existing SOFA. They said they’d make that recommendation to Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Thomas Hubbard.

They also agreed to press ahead with negotiations to improve mutual cooperation in criminal investigations. A SOFA Criminal Jurisdiction Subcommittee is holding talks on that issue.

The SOFA, adopted in 1966, has been revised twice.

SOFA governs relations between South Korea and the 37,000 U.S. troops stationed there. Korean national lawmakers have mounted a bipartisan effort to revise it, following public anger over the November acquittal of two U.S. soldiers whose vehicle killed two teenage girls.

Officials from both nations were working out the date and time of the meeting, which is aimed at improving how SOFA is carried out, a Korean Ministry of National Defense spokesman confirmed.

The sessions also will explore how to ease widening anti-American feeling surrounding the case. A working-level SOFA criminal committee will meet, too.

Sgt. Fernando Nino and Sgt. Mark Walker were tried in separate courts-martial on negligent homicide charges in connection with the June 13 deaths of Shim Mi-sun and Shin Hyo-soon, both 13. A 45-ton armored vehicle, which Nino and Walker crewed, struck and killed the girls.

Many Koreans have voiced anger that under SOFA, the trials were conducted by the U.S. military, not South Korean courts. Protests intensified when Nino and Walker were acquitted late last month.

Among likely participants in the talks, the spokesman said, are officials from South Korea’s Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry, Ministry of National Defense, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Thomas C. Hubbard and Army Lt. Gen. Charles C. Campbell, commander of the 8th U.S. Army in Seoul.

Meanwhile, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, traveling to Seoul this week to discuss North Korea’s nuclear program and other security issues, also is expected to discuss SOFA and anti-Americanism stemming from the case.

A U.S. congressional delegation, led by House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, had planned to visit Seoul beginning Sunday but decided Saturday night to postpone the visit because of anti-American protests.

A written statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said: “Chairman Hyde postponed his visit because he did not want the delegation to become the focal point of demonstrations here. He intends to reschedule his visit at a less sensitive time.”