South Korea leader to visit China for summit in December

Danang

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 programme high on the agenda.

The agreement was disclosed as Mr Moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) 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 Mr Xi, but didn't receive an invitation.

Mr Abe didn't hold a meeting with Mr Moon at Apec. Seoul and Tokyo have their own issues over history and territory. Such frictio…