FM Cho to visit Beijing for talks with Wang Yi: sources

Foreign Minister Cho Hyun is expected to visit China this week for talks with his counterpart, Wang Yi, diplomatic sources said Sunday. Cho is likely to raise Chinese President Xi Jinping's potential visit to South Korea for next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Xi is widely expected to attend the summit, though China has yet to confirm his participation. Cho is also expected to reaffirm South Korea and China's shared goal of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula and ask for China's constructive role amid concerns that Beijing may be softening its stance of nonacceptance of North Korea's nuclear program. Earlier this month, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held talks with Xi in their first meeting in more than six years. The two leaders made no public mention of denuclearization, in contrast to their four summits in 2018-19. Kim also joined Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a large military parade in Beijing earlier this month to mark China's victory over Japan in World War II, the first such gathering in 66 years. Their show of unity raised concerns it could coWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times