岸田新総裁に期待　韓日議連が総会

　【ソウル時事】超党派の韓日議員連盟は３０日、ソウルで２０２１年の定期総会を開き、金振杓会長（与党「共に民主党」）は、自民党の岸田文雄新総裁について「１５年の韓日政府間の慰安婦交渉を、当時の安倍晋三首相の反対に屈せず貫徹させた人だ。それなりに期待を持っている」と述べた。
　日韓・韓日議連は年内に合同総会を開く方向。金氏は「両国の政界が反日感情、嫌韓感情を国内政治に利用しないという決議をすべき時ではないか」と呼び掛けた。元徴用工問題で韓国側が解決策を示すべきだと主張する日本政府の姿勢は「正しくない」とも語った。（2021/09/30-16:09）

Kim Jin-pyo, head of a nonpartisan group of South Korean lawmakers promoting friendship with Japan, expressed hopes on Thursday for the Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new president, Fumio Kishida.
   Speaking at a general meeting of the group, Kim said Kishida carried through with bilateral negotiations on the 2015 landmark agreement between Tokyo and Seoul to resolve the issue of the so-called wartime comfort women, without yielding to opposition expressed by then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
   "We have reasonable hope," he said.
   Kishida, then foreign minister, signed the agreement on comfort women, mostly from the Korean Peninsula, who served as prostitutes, including by coercion, for Japanese troops before and during World War II.
   The lawmaker group plans to hold a joint meeting with its Japanese counterpart by the end of this year.