South Korean opposition leader to visit China in October

The head of South Korea's main opposition party will travel to China in October to attend a regional meeting of parliamentarians and meet senior Chinese officials, the Yonhap News Agency cited his aides as saying on Tuesday.

Rep. Moon Jae-in, chairman of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD), plans to join a session of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties to be held in Beijing from Oct. 14-16.

Sponsored by the Communist Party of China, the meeting will take place under the theme of "Rebuilding the Silk Road."

Moon will use the trip to "help strengthen the capability of Asia political party diplomacy and share opinions on peace and security on the Korean Peninsula in meetings with Chinese leaders," the party's spokesman Kim Sung-soo said.

It would be Moon's first trip to China as leader of NPAD, coming at the invitation of Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Source: MENA