Jeffrey Schott, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, expects lower tariffs to result from U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit.

Despite weeks of frantic diplomacy, the chances of South Korea and the United States sealing a trade deal before next week’s Apec summit appear to be slim, with strong domestic backing enabling Seoul to resist a compromise seen as perilous to the national economy.

Both US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in South Korea next week as it hosts the APEC leaders' summit. President Lee Jae Myung will take the chance to hold separate meetings with Mr Trump and Mr Xi.

South Korea is stepping up its security measures in the southeastern city of Gyeongju, which hosts the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of 21 member economies next week, with large-scale field exercises held and higher terrorism-alert levels imposed.

Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters that Canada will not permit unfair US access to its markets if current trade talks do not yield progress, emphasizing, “If we ultimately don’t make progress in these various sectors, we’re going to do what’s necessary to protect our workers,” according to BNN Bloomberg .

South Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Cho Hyun discusses an elusive trade deal with the US, his views on North Korea, as well as the upcoming APEC summit in an interview with Correspondent Lim Yun Suk on CNA's East Asia Tonight.

The president, of course, has expressed his willingness to meet with Kim Jong Un in the future. It is not on the schedule for this trip,’ the senior official told reporters

Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea later this month.

China's foreign ministry says President Xi Jinping will visit South Korea when the country hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, summit next week.

Xi Jinping will deliver a speech at APEC and hold bilateral meetings with other leaders, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

North Korea successfully tested a "new cutting-edge weapons system" involving hypersonic missiles, state-run media reported Thursday, amid heightened regional tensions.