Choo Mi-ae, the leader of South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks during her trip to Beijing this week, her aide said Wednesday.
The meeting is slated to take place on the sidelines of an international conference of political parties in the Chinese capital Friday, amid heightened tensions sparked by North Korea's long-range ballistic missile launch on Wednesday.
Choo embarks on her four-day visit to China on Thursday to attend the conference, titled the "Communist Party of China in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting," and meet Beijing officials and South Korean residents there.
Choo Mi-ae, the leader of the ruling Democratic Party, attends a party meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2017. (Yonhap)
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