South Korea’s Lee to meet Xi with trade, Pyongyang on agenda

BEIJING — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Monday with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, with closer economic ties as well as the recalcitrant North on the agenda. Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his meeting with Xi comes a day after the nuclear-armed North fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. The pair will meet for an opening ceremony and a summit before the signing of an agreement and a state banquet, Seoul has said. The South Korean leader, accompanied by a delegation of business and tech…