TOKYO – This is a year of presidential elections worldwide, and the last to take place – on December 19 – will be in South Korea. That ballot, however, is already having an international impact, in part because South Korea’s failure to ratify an important new intelligence-sharing treaty with Japan is widely seen as a result of campaign politics.
东京—今年，全世界都在选总统，最后一位选出的（12月19日）将是韩国总统。但是，韩国总统选举已经产生了国际影响，这部分是因为，韩国没有批准重要的与日情报共享新条约被广泛看作是竞选政治的结果。但从该地区作为一个整体看，韩国总统选举可能会带来很好的积极影响。