Chinese President Xi Jinping will seriously consider a visit to South Korea, he said before the opening of the Asian Games on Saturday, Yonhap reported, citing a senior official.
“This means that President Xi knows it is his turn to visit South Korea,” the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that Xi’s visit has been “long delayed.”
Xi Jinping last visited South Korea in 2014. President Yun Seok-yol extended an invitation to Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, in November 2022.
It is planned that the visit could take place as part of efforts to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.
According to Yonhap, citing a South Korean senior official, Xi Jinping also said that China appreciates Seoul’s efforts to resume the long-suspended annual trilateral summit between South Korea, China and Japan and that Beijing welcomes the trilateral summit at an appropriate time.
It is noted that the trilateral summit was last held in 2019.
