Friday, 22/12/2017 20:07 (GMT+7)
President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Moon Jae-in highly appraised his official four-day visit to China.
RoK President Moon Jae-in and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Source: AP)
President Moon, who took office in May, carried out his first presidential visit to China last week at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
During the four-day trip, Mr. Moon first visited Beijing where he met with top officials to steady a relationship that has been put into a tailspin since last year over the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defence antimissile system in Korea.
President Moon Jae-in had his third meeting with President Xi, following encounters in Hamburg at the G20 Summit in July and the APEC Summit in Vietnam last month.
Welcoming Moon at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, President Xi said, "I hope and believe that your visit will be an important opportunity to improve relations as we seek to find ways to carve a better path based on mutual respect and trust.”
President Moon responded that there have been "temporary difficulties" between the sides, but they "provided an opportunity to think from the other's perspective."
He called the meeting a "first step to develop the mutual relations to the next level."/.
Compiled by BTA