President-elect Park Geun-hye will send a high-level delegation to China next Tuesday in response to a visit by China's vice foreign minister to Seoul last week. The delegation will be led by Kim Moo-sung, the former chief manager of Park's campaign committee.He will be accompanied by Saenuri Party lawmakers Shim Yoon-joe and Cho Won-jin, as well as Professor Han Suk-hee of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University. During their three-day visit, the envoys will meet with China's Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.

{Park Sun-kyoo, Spokesperson, Presidential Transition Team} "The two sides will reaffirm their strong alliance and seek ways to further develop their bilateral relationship amid the rapidly changing political situation in Northeast Asia. Following China. "

President-elect Park is expected to send envoys to the United States, Japan and Russia one by one, as part of her diplomatic outreach to Korea's four most important allies and neighboring countries. This is quite different from the Lee Myung-bak and former Roh Moo-hyun administrations. They sent envoys to all four nations at the same time after being elected president.Spokesperson of the transition team Park Sun-kyoo told reporters that there was a request from Washington to send a delegation from Seoul, and the committee is currently discussing how and when it will send its envoys.

{Eoh Jin-joo, jjeoh@arirang.co.kr} "It hasn't yet been confirmed, but it is highly likely that the delegation to Beijing will carry a letter from President-elect Park. The transition team made it clear that the order of the envoy visits is not significant, and it plans to go over requests made by other countries as well.

Eoh Jin-joo, Arirang News."

Reporter : jjeoh@arirang.co.kr