{"id":107189,"date":"2024-06-17T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=107189"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:00:22","slug":"chinese-senior-officials-south-korea-trip-to-coincide-with-putins-pyongyang-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=107189","title":{"rendered":"Chinese senior officials\u2019 South Korea trip to coincide with Putin\u2019s Pyongyang visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA trip to South Korea by senior Chinese foreign and defence officials will coincide with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s visit to Pyongyang next door, as tensions soar in the Korean peninsula. Foreign vice-minister Sun Weidong and Zhang Baoqun, deputy director of the Chinese military\u2019s international cooperation office, will be in Seoul on Tuesday to take part in the \u201c2+2\u201d diplomatic and security dialogue, Beijing\u2019s foreign ministry has confirmed. South Korean foreign vice-minister Kim Hong-kyun and defence officials will take part in the meeting, a statement from Seoul\u2019s foreign ministry said. A rough schedule for the coming dialogue was confirmed when Chinese Premier Li Qiang met South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul last month. Set up in 2002, the dialogue has been organised five times so far. It was upgraded to vice-ministerial level in 2020, when the Beijing-friendly Moon Jae-in was president of South Korea. \u201cThe establishment of the 2+2 dialogue mechanism between China and the Republic of Korea \u2026 is in view of the needs of the development of bilateral relations,\u201d Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said in Beijing on Monday, referring to the official name for South Korea \u201cChina will focus on exchanging views with South Korea on how to develop and improve [relations and] deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields,\u201d he added. Meanwhile, Putin will travel to North Korea on Tuesday, the Kremlin has confirmed after months of speculation over the much-hyped trip. It will be the Russian leader\u2019s first visit to the reclusive country in two decades. This comes amid reports that Moscow is seeking closer ties with Pyongyang as it tries to rebuild its international image following the damaging invasion of Ukraine. Lin said the date for the dialogue \u201cwas agreed upon at an early stage\u201d and had \u201cno special relevance to other countries\u201d. However, Putin\u2019s coming visit injects greater uncertainty into the situation in the peninsula, as North and South Korea mark new lows in ties. All economic\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3266968\/chinese-senior-officials-south-korea-trip-coincide-putins-pyongyang-visit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA trip to South Korea by senior Chinese foreign and defence officials will coincide with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s visit to Pyongyang next door,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}