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Agence France-Presse

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit China next week for talks on North Korea and other issues, his office said on Wednesday, amid tentative signs of diplomatic movement after months of high tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile threats.
The announcement came as a high-level United Nations representative held talks with a senior North Korean official during a rare trip to Pyongyang.
Jeffrey Feltman, UN undersecretary general for political affairs, arrived on Tuesday to discuss “issues of mutual interest and concern”.
It was not immediately clear what was discussed between Feltman and the North’s vice foreign minister Pak Myong-kuk.
Feltman’s trip – the first by a UN diplomat of his rank since 2010 – comes less than a week after North Korea test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile said to be capable of reaching the United States.

Discussing ways to “peacefully resolve North Korea’s nuclear issue” will be on Moon’s agenda when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, Moon’s office said.
China has proposed that the North suspend missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a suspension of US-South Korean military exercises, a suggestion Washington has repeatedly rejected.
Chinese air force holds drills in ‘new routes and areas’ near Korean peninsula
A US B-1B bomber flew over the Korean peninsula on Wednesday, Seoul’s defence ministry said, as part of a major joint air exercise slammed by the North as an “all-out provocation” that could trigger a nuclear war.
The five-day Vigilant Ace drill – involving some 230 aircraft including F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters – began on Monday, five days after the North’s ICBM test.
Moon will arrive in Beijing next Wednesday for a four-day state visit, his first trip to China since taking office in May. The two countries are trying to improve ties strained by Seoul’s deployment of a US missile defence system.
Seoul and Washington say the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system is intended solely to counter missile threats from North Korea but Beijing sees it as a threat to its own military capabilities.
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It has imposed a series of sanctions on South Korean firms and banned Chinese tour groups from going to the country in moves seen as economic retaliation. The tour group ban has since been partially lifted.
China is South Korea’s biggest trading partner and the measures have had a big impact on some of the South’s biggest companies, including retail conglomerate Lotte – which provided a golf course used for the THAAD deployment – and auto giant Hyundai.


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South Korean leader Moon Jae-in to visit China next week for talks on North Korea

Moon Jae-in’s (right) office says discussing ways to “peacefully resolve North Korea’s nuclear issue” will be on his agenda when he meets Xi Jinping (left) next week. Photos: Kyodo

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks as he presides over a meeting of the National Security Council at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea’s latest missile launch is a frustrating development for South Korean organizers of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, just 10 weeks away from the opening ceremony. (Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korean leader Moon Jae-in to visit China next week for talks on North Korea

Announcement comes as UN envoy visits Pyongyang