S.Korea's Moon 捨てるs Tokyo trip over '容認できない' 外交官 発言／述べるs
By Hyonhee 向こうずね and Chang-Ran Kim
SEOUL/TOKYO, July 19 (Reuters) - South Korean 大統領 Moon Jae-in will not visit Tokyo for the 近づいている Olympics, his office said on Monday, scrapping 計画（する）s for what would have been his first 首脳会議 with 総理大臣 Yoshihide Suga.
The 告示 （機の）カム after ソウル 宿泊するd a 抗議する over a news 報告（する）／憶測 on Friday that a 上級の 外交官 at Japan's 大使館 in ソウル had said Moon was "masturbating" when 述べるing his 成果／努力s to 改善する relations between the two countries.
"大統領 Moon has decided not to visit Japan," Moon's 圧力（をかける） 長官 Park Soo-hyun told a 要点説明, 追加するing both 味方するs had 調査するd ways to 取り組む 列／漕ぐ／騒動s over history and 上げる 協調 but failed to reach 協定.
"The discussions were held 友好的に and made かなりの 進歩, but it still fell short of 存在 considered as a 首脳会議 result, and we took other circumstances into account," Park said, without (a)手の込んだ／(v)詳述するing.
Suga 拒絶する／低下するd to comment on Moon's 決定／判定勝ち（する）, but 述べるd the Japanese 外交官's 発言／述べるs as "不適切な."
Moon's office said it turned "skeptical" about his 可能性のある trip after the Japanese 外交官's "容認できない" comment.
Moon will instead send the culture 大臣 to Friday's 開会式 as 長，率いる of the Korean 代表, his office said, wishing Japan 安全な and successful Olympics.
The 最新の uproar その上の inflamed relations between the two nations 反目，不和ing over 領土の （人命などを）奪う，主張するs and their 戦時 history, dashing any remaining hopes that the Tokyo Games might 申し込む／申し出 a fresh start for 二国間の／相互の and 地域の 協調.
The neighbors have long been at 半端物s over 補償（金） for Koreans 軍隊d to work in Japanese 会社／堅いs and 軍の 売春宿s during Japan's 1910-45 植民地の 支配する.
Last month, another spat 爆発するd over a 地図／計画する on the Tokyo Olympics website showing a 始める，決める of Korea-controlled islands as Japanese 領土.
Japan's Yomiuri newspaper earlier on Monday 報告（する）／憶測d Moon would 会合，会う Suga in Tokyo on Friday, but both 政府s quickly 否定するd a 会合 had been 完結するd, with Moon's office 特記する／引用するing an "last minute 障害."
Japan's 官房長官 Katsunobu Kato said Tokyo's 外交官／大使 in ソウル Koichi Aiboshi 警告を与えるd his 副 over his "残念な" 発言／述べるs, but did not (a)手の込んだ／(v)詳述する when asked whether he would be 解雇（する）d as 報告（する）／憶測d by Yomiuri.
South Korea's 副／悪徳行為 外務大臣, Choi Jong-kun, 召喚するd Aiboshi on Saturday to 抗議する. Moon's office said it took 公式文書，認める of Kato's comment, but called for Tokyo to take steps to 妨げる such a 状況／情勢 from recurring.
Suga this month called relations between Japan and South Korea "very difficult," 追加するing that it was up to ソウル to 演説（する）／住所 history 論争s and other problems.
Moon had earlier hoped the Olympics may 申し込む／申し出 an 適切な時期 for North and South Korea to 改善する relations and 生き返らせる peace 会談, before Pyongyang 発表するd it would not take part because of coronavirus 関心s. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Chang-Ran Kim, Ju-min Park in Tokyo, Hyonhee 向こうずね, Sangmi Cha and Jack Kim in ソウル; Editing by William Mallard, Gerry Doyle, Lincoln Feast and Tomasz Janowski)
