
President Lee Jae-myung discussed Korea-China relations and regional situation ahead of APEC attendance
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The Korea-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting will be held three months after Director Wang Yi's visit to Korea last August. This meeting is being held ahead of President Lee Jae-myung's attendance at the Shenzhen APEC summit next week.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun will meet with Wang Yi, Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Beijing, China, on the 13th.
Park Doo-soon, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a regular briefing on the 12th, "Minister Cho will visit China from the 13th to the 14th at the invitation of Minister Wang," and added, "He will hold a meeting and dinner with the Korean and Chinese foreign ministers on the 13th."
Spokesperson Park explained, "This meeting is being held three months after Director Wang's visit to Korea last August, and the two ministers plan to broadly discuss issues of mutual interest, including Korea-China relations and regional situations, including the Korean Peninsula, ahead of President Lee Jae-myung's attendance at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen next week."
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Advance coordination regarding President Lee Jae-myung's attendance at Shenzhen APEC will be made at the Korea-China foreign ministers' meeting.
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