The file photo taken in 1999 shows the guard of honor of the three services of the PLA attending a parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. (Photo/Xinhua)
South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit China next month to participate in the celebratory event to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday.[Special coverage]
Ju Chul-ki, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs, told a press briefing that Park will make a trip to China for three days from Sept 2 to attend the celebratory event set to be held in Beijing on Sept 3.
Park will attend the celebratory event in the morning on Sept 3, but it has yet to be decided on whether Park will take part in the Sept 3 military parade, Ju said.
Ju said that detailed schedules are still under discussion with Chinese counterparts, adding that the details would be explained in an appropriate time.
China has scheduled a series of events for the war victory anniversary, culminating in a military parade on Sept 3 in Beijing.
Park will move to Shanghai on Sept 3 to attend the ceremony on Sept 4 to reopen the office of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, which was established in Shanghai in 1919.
The Korean independent fighters resisted against the Imperial Japan together with Chinese patriots during Japan's colonial era from 1910 to 1945.
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Park has good reason to attend Sept 3 parade
The Republic of Korea is likely to announce in a few days whether ROK President Park Geun-hye will attend a grand military parade in Beijing on Sept 3 to observe the 70th anniversary of the victory of Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Just a week ago, Japan's Kyodo News reported that the United States has, through diplomatic channels, asked Park not to attend the event, although the report was later denied both by Park's spokesman Min Kyung-wook and the US State Department.
Without Washington's diplomatic "intervention", however, attending the event would be the most natural decision of Park, given the improving strategic partnership between the ROK and China. In fact, the two countries have a lot in common when it comes to their history of fighting Japanese aggression before and during World War II.
China was a major overseas base for many Korean exiles who were forced to leave their homeland after Japan occupied the then undivided Korea in 1910.
