Korean, Chinese foreign ministers to meet in Beijing tomorrow; meeting arranged five days before APEC in Shenzhen, China

[Financial News] The meeting between the foreign ministers of South Korea and China was arranged just five days before the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, scheduled for the 18th and 19th.
At the invitation of Wang Yi, a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo and China’s foreign minister, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will visit Beijing, China, from the 13th to the 14th. Cho is scheduled to hold talks with Wang and attend a dinner on the 13th. The meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers is expected to address North Korea-U.S. talks and issues concerning the Korean Peninsula, among other matters.
The meeting will take place three months after Wang’s visit to South Korea last August.
At a regular briefing that day, MOFA spokesperson Park Du-sun said, “Ahead of President Lee Jae-myung’s attendance at next week’s APEC summit in Shenzhen, the two ministers plan to discuss a broad range of issues of mutual interest, including relations between South Korea and China and regional affairs, including the Korean Peninsula.” The spokesperson said the two countries had held consultations on Korean Peninsula issues and that these would naturally be discussed at the meeting as well.
MOFA, however, assessed the likelihood of North Korea-U.S. talks taking place in connection with APEC as low. “For now, we consider the possibility of any specific effort to promote such talks to be somewhat low,” Park said, adding, “We are closely monitoring related developments.” He nevertheless said, “We hope that the resumption of North Korea-U.S. talks will lead to virtuous-cycle progress in stability and peace on the Korean Peninsula.”
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