Moon due in China for summit with Xi over N. Korea, bilateral ties

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to visit China this week for a bilateral summit with his Chinese counterpart that is widely expected to focus on ways to peacefully end North Korea's nuclear ambitions and repair the Seoul-Beijing relations that soured over the deployment of the THAAD U.S. missile defense system in South Korea.

Korean President Moon Jae-in is in China to recover mutual trust. Source: Getty Images

The South Korean leader will head to Beijing on Wednesday for a four-day state visit that will also take him to China's southwestern city of Chongqing. He and Xi Jinping will hold their third bilateral summit Thursday. The two earlier met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany in July and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vietnam last month.

Korean Program analyses the implication of President Moon's visit to China.