Yonhap reports that South Korea has informed China that it wishes to normalize relations
The chairman of a high-level delegation from Seoul stated during a visit to Beijing on Sunday that South Korea hopes to normalize tense relations with China that have existed in recent years, according to Yonhap News Agency.
While visiting Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung dispatched the envoys to his nation’s top trading partner.
The delegation’s leader, former assembly speaker Park Byeong-seug, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and gave Chinese President Xi Jinping a letter from Lee.
Since a 2017 disagreement over South Korea’s installation of a U.S. missile defense system, which Beijing opposed, diplomatic relations between the two nations have improved.
However, in 2023, they swore at each other over South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s disparaging remarks about Beijing.
On Sunday, Park expressed his hope to Wang Yi that the mission will “open the door to normalizing South Korea-China relations, which have been strained in recent years,” according to Yonhap.
