日韓、１５日にも外相会談　首脳会談へ地ならし

　日韓両政府は１５、１６両日にマドリードで開かれるアジア欧州会議（ＡＳＥＭ）外相会合に合わせ、茂木敏充外相と康京和外相が会談する方向で最終調整に入った。複数の日本政府関係者が１４日、明らかにした。
　両政府は、２４日に中国・成都で開催する日中韓首脳会談の機会に、安倍晋三首相と文在寅大統領による日韓首脳会談を調整している。両外相は会談で、その地ならしを図りたい考えだ。（2019/12/14-18:53）

The Japanese and South Korean governments are arranging a meeting between their foreign ministers on the sidelines of an Asia-Europe Meeting gathering to be held in Madrid for two days from Sunday, Japanese government sources said Saturday.
   Japan's Toshimitsu Motegi and South Korea's Kang Kyung-wha are expected to lay the groundwork for an anticipated summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in China on Dec. 24.
   The Madrid meeting, if realized, would be the third between Motegi, who took office in September, and Kang. They met in New York in late September and in the central Japan city of Nagoya in late November.
   The Nagoya meeting followed Seoul's suspension of its August decision to scrap its military information-sharing pact with Tokyo.
   At the possible Madrid meeting, Motegi is expected to reiterate Tokyo's demand that South Korea correct its alleged violation of international law over the bilateral issue of wartime labor.