South Korea Leader to Visit China as Japan's Abe Left Waiting
- Moon accepts December invitation; North Korea a big topic
- Abe suggested to Xi at summit he should visit China next year
Moon Jae-in
Photographer: Jung Yeon-Je-Pool/Getty Images
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit China for a summit in December, his office said, with tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program high on the agenda.
The agreement was disclosed as Moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Danang, Vietnam. In a sign that tensions remain between Tokyo and Beijing over their wartime history and territorial disputes, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed he visit for his own meeting with Xi, but didn’t receive an invitation.