Let's start with the warming relationship between South Korea and China.
It had looked as though there would be no turning back when Beijing began imposing highly
damaging economic retaliation measures over Seoul's missile defense upgrade decision.
But with the top nuclear envoys of the two sides set to hold talks in Beijing today,..
the door for more meetings and closer ties is now open.
Kim Hyo-sun reports.
South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, Lee
Do-hoon, will meet with his Chinese counterpart Kong Xuanyou in Beijing on Tuesday.
This will be their first face-to-face meeting since the two took office.
And early next month,... a delegation of six South Korean lawmakers led by Representative
Chung Dong-young of the liberal opposition People's Party,... will sit down with China's
former State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan to discuss measures to tackle North Korea's nuclear threats.
Moreover, former South Korean prime minister Lee Soo-sung and five sitting lawmakers are
scheduled to attend a seminar with Chinese diplomatic experts in Beijing on Friday.
The two neighbors also plan to resume police authorities exchanges, which have been halted
since July last year after Seoul's announcement of the deployment of the THAAD anti-missile
system.
Diplomatic sources in Beijing have interpreted the resumption of government-level exchanges
as a positive sign.
(CHINESE) "We hope South Korea-China relations return
to a peaceful and healthy trajectory as soon as possible."
With such a marked thawing of relations,... watchers note that such changes could be seen
as orders from the Chinese leadership.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.
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