元徴用工問題、打開できず　日韓外務省幹部が協議

　外務省の滝崎成樹アジア大洋州局長は１５日午前、同省内で韓国外務省の金丁漢アジア太平洋局長と会談した。約２時間２０分の会談の中で、両国関係悪化の原因となった元徴用工問題や失効期限を２３日午前０時に迎える軍事情報包括保護協定（ＧＳＯＭＩＡ）などについて協議したが、双方が自国の立場を重ねて主張し、事態の打開は図られなかった。
　日本外務省によると、会談の大半は元徴用工問題に割かれた。滝崎氏は韓国側が１９６５年の日韓請求権協定を厳守し、国際法違反状態を是正するよう求めた。
　また、滝崎氏はＧＳＯＭＩＡについても、韓国側に「現下の安全保障環境を踏まえた賢明な対応」を要請。これに対し、金氏は日本政府による韓国向け輸出管理の厳格化措置の撤回がなければ延長は困難との立場を示したという。（2019/11/15-12:40）

Senior Japanese and South Korean diplomats at their meeting Friday failed to break the deadlock over the issues of wartime labor and the two countries' military information-sharing pact known as GSOMIA.
    Tokyo and Seoul remained apart as both sides only repeated their respective positions on the sticky issues, sources with access to the talks said.
   The meeting, held in Tokyo for about two hours and 20 minutes, was attended by Shigeki Takizaki, director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, and Kim Jung-han, director-general for Asian and Pacific affairs of South Korea's Foreign Ministry.
   Relations between the two East Asian neighbors have deteriorated due partly to the labor issue. Last year, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered two Japanese companies to pay compensation to South Koreans requisitioned to work for them during World War II. Japan says that wartime labor issues were fully resolved under a 1965 bilateral pact on property and claims.
   According to the Japanese ministry, Takizaki and Kim focused mostly on the wartime labor issue. Takizaki called on South Korea to definitely follow the 1965 pact and correct what Tokyo claims is its violation of international law over the matter.