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Chinese premier hopes for substantial outcome from agreement with Seoul

By KH디지털2

Published : Nov. 2, 2015 - 13:58

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang expressed hope Monday that the latest agreement reached by China and South Korea will bring a substantial outcome.
  

On Saturday, President Park Geun-hye and Li Keqiang agreed to strengthen dialogue on North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the potential unification of the two Koreas.
  

Park and Li agreed to "further strengthen strategic communication" on the situation on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's nuclear ambition and the unification of South and North Korea, the presidential office said.
  

"I look forward to an agreement reached by the leaders of China and Republic of Korea (South Korea) to bring out a substantial outcome," Li said during a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn.
  

"With President Park Geun-hye, I watched (two countries) signing many documents," the Chinese premier said, adding that this visit elevated relations between two countries to the next level.
  

The summit between Park and Li was held on the sidelines of a trilateral summit that also included Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the first such meeting among the neighbors in more than three years.
  

A trilateral summit has not been held since 2012 due to a territorial dispute between China and Japan, as well as Japan's attempts to whitewash its wartime atrocities and colonial occupation
  

Prime Minster Hwang also congratulated the Chinese leader for the successful results of the trilateral summit.
  

"I hope to see more developments among the three countries based on this summit," Hwang said.
  

Hwang also thanked Li for the Chinese government's help with a bus accident in the northeastern Chinese city of Jian, in which 10 South Korean officials were killed in July. (Yonhap)