日米韓首脳会談、自国開催を打診　キャンプデービッドで定例化合意―韓国

　【ソウル時事】韓国大統領府関係者は７日、日米韓３カ国の首脳会談を来年に自国で開催することを打診していると明らかにした。岸田文雄首相とバイデン米大統領、韓国の尹錫悦大統領は今年８月、ワシントン近郊のキャンプデービッド山荘で会談。中国や北朝鮮を念頭に連携を強化するため、首脳会談を定例化することで合意した。
　大統領府関係者は、少なくとも年１回は３カ国首脳会談を開くことになっていると指摘。「韓国として、日本と米国の首脳を招待して会談を開く意思を打診中だ」と説明した。
　関係者は具体的時期には言及しなかった。来年４月には韓国の総選挙、同１１月には米大統領選が予定されており、来年前半の早期の開催を目指す見通しだ。（2023/12/07-18:10）

Seoul has sounded out the possibility of holding a trilateral summit with Japan and the United States in South Korea next year, a source at the South Korean presidential office said Thursday.
   When they met at Camp David, a U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland, in August, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed to regularize the three countries' summits in a bid to strengthen their cooperation, with China and North Korea in mind.
   The South Korean source noted that the three countries' leaders are supposed to meet at least once a year.
   The South Korean government is asking the United States and Japan about its plan to invite their leaders for holding a three-way meeting in South Korea, the source added, while stopping short of mentioning when such a summit would take place.
   Seoul is seen aiming to hold the tripartite summit at an early date in the first half of next year. In 2024, a general election will be held in South Korea in April, and the U.S. presidential election is scheduled for November.