China-South Korea Summit to Focus on Trade, North Succession
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South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Chinese President Hu Jintao will consider a free-trade agreement at a summit next week that will also include discussion of North Korea’s leadership succession.
“Both sides basically share the view that a free trade agreement between South Korea and China is needed,” South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan said at a briefing in Seoul yesterday. Lee’s three-day trip begins Jan. 9, and he and Hu will also discuss how to “work together for the sake of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula,” his office said in a statement.