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The foreign ministers of Korea and China met for the first time in Bali, Indonesia, where the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held.

It was right after South Korea attended the NATO summit, which agreed to confront China's challenge, so I was very interested in what kind of conversations would come and go.



Correspondence to Min-Jeong Kim.



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Foreign Minister Park Jin and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met for the first time in Bali, Indonesia.



It is a high-level meeting between the two countries that took place more than a week after President Yun Seok-yeol attended the NATO summit that specified China as a structural challenge.



[Wang Yi/Minister of Foreign Affairs of China: We are ready to cooperate with the South Korean side so that the good neighbor relationship and friendly and cooperative relationship can continue to develop.]



Nevertheless, there is one word about South Korea strengthening its alliance with the United States .

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Director Wang said, "It is necessary to prevent a Cold War accident from returning from this region," and stressed that if relations between South Korea and China go wrong, both countries could suffer.


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Experts analyzed that China appears to have taken the first step toward appeasement while exploring the diplomatic stance of the new South Korean government.



[Jun-Young Kang / Director, Center for International Regional Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: If the trilateral cooperation between Korea, the US and Japan is further strengthened, that is not good



for China. He predicted that if he participated in military cooperation for the purpose, he could turn to hard-line measures such as economic retaliation.



[Kim Heung-gyu / Director of the US-China Policy Research Institute at Ajou University: There are so many things that can confuse us even if we do not officially impose trade sanctions on us, so even if only a few (highly dependent) delay customs clearance and disrupt the supply chain…

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Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan held separate talks to discuss specific ways to cooperate in response to the North Korean nuclear threat.



(Video editing: Lee Seung-hee, screen provided by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)