South Korea's Lee to meet Xi with trade, Pyongyang on the agenda

FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung before their summit meeting at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Nov. 1, 2025. - Yonhap via AP

BEIJING: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will meet Monday (Jan 5) with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, with closer economic ties as well as the recalcitrant North on the agenda.

Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his meeting with Xi on Monday came a day after the nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.