South Korean President Park Geun-Hye (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a joint declaration ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. AFP PHOTO
BEIJING: China’s Xi Jinping will visit Seoul next week, both sides said on Friday, going to the South for his first presidential journey to the Korean peninsula as Beijing’s frustrations mount with the nuclear-armed North and its confrontational young leader Kim Jong-Un.