Foreign Minister Cho Hyun to Visit China Nov. 13-14 Ahead of APEC, Hold Talks with Wang Yi (Update)

Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will visit China on November 13 for talks with Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China and China’s foreign minister.

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At a briefing on November 12 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Jongno-gu, Seoul, ministry spokesperson Park Doosun said, “At the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang, Minister Cho will visit China and attend a South Korea-China foreign ministers’ meeting and dinner on November 13.” He added, “Ahead of President Lee Jae-myung’s attendance at next week’s APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit in Shenzhen, the two sides plan to hold broad discussions on matters of mutual interest, including South Korea-China relations and regional affairs, particularly on the Korean Peninsula.”

The South Korea-China foreign ministers’ meeting will be held about three months after Wang visited South Korea on August 19 for talks. Attention is focused on the fact that the foreign ministers of the two countries are holding a separate meeting just five days before the APEC summit, which will take place in Shenzhen, China, next week.

At the meeting, the sides are expected to discuss North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s unprecedented attempt to make a day trip to China on October 24, when he met with Wang, and the November 3 visit to Beijing by Kim Song Nam, international secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

As high-level exchanges between North Korea and China have recently picked up sharply, some have raised the possibility of talks between North Korea and the United States. Asked about this, spokesperson Park said, “We see few specific signs or indications that such talks are being pursued,” adding, “We are closely monitoring related developments.”

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