South Korea and China signed seven agreements including cooperation on innovation, online crime prevention, and elderly care industries during meeting

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to assist in restarting stalled talks with nuclear-armed North Korea.

Lee hosted Xi following an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) highlighting the significance of renewed dialogue on the Korean Peninsula.

“I am very positive about the situation in which conditions for engagement with North Korea are being formed,” Lee noted, highlighting recent high-level exchanges between Beijing and Pyongyang.

Lee called Xi, who visited South Korea after 11 years, for closer strategic communication with China to “take advantage of these favourable conditions” to resume peace talks.

Xi, in remarks ahead of the summit, described South Korea as an “inseparable cooperative partner,” stressing Beijing’s desire to “jointly tackle challenges” and “widen cooperation.”

Adding to the conversation related to the improving ties between South Korea and North Korea, Chinese state media later confirmed that Xi proposed mutual respect for each country’s systems and increased collaboration in technology, green industries, and aging population initiatives.

The visit reflects the complex balance South Korea intends to maintain between its security alliance with the US and its economic dependence on China.

During the meeting, both countries agreed on “seven” agreements including a won-yuan currency swap and accords on innovation, online crime prevention, and elderly care industries.

Earlier, North Korea refused to engage with Seoul by swiftly dismissing its denuclearization plan. Furthermore, despite having strong ties with China and Russia, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, maintained the stance of “dialogue with the South is off the table.”

Fans suspect that Travis Kelce’s ex, Kayla Nicole, has taken a subtle swipe at his fiancée Taylor Swift, with her Halloween post.

Taking to Instagram on Friday, October 31, Nicole, 33, shared a photo of herself dressed up as Toni Braxton for Halloween. She recreated the singer’s look from her song He Wasn’t Man Enough.

“Listen, girl / Who do you think I am? / Don’t you know that he was my man? / But I chose to let him go / So why do you act like I still care about him?” part of the song’s lyrics read.

“What you thinkin’? / Stop blamin’ me / He wasn’t man enough for me / If you don’t know, now here’s the chance / I’ve already had your man.”

The lyrics of the song made fans speculate that it was a dig at Kelce, whom Nicola dated from 2017 through 2022.

“This was a very SAVAGE move,” commented one fan, while another wrote, “This is how you have the last laugh.. “

A third commented, “Somebody gon check on TayTay?”

This comes after Taylor apparently took a shot at Kayla with her The Life of a Show Girl song Opalite. 

According to swifties, the lyrics point to a video of Kayla and Travis at a diner, where the NFL player said, “Oh, my God. Get off your phone. Get off your phone. … You’re not even drinking your wine anymore, can we go?”

In Opalite, Taylor sings, “You couldn’t understand it / Why you felt alone / You were in it for real / She was in her phone / You were just a pose,” Swift, 35, sings on the track. “And don’t we try to love love / And give it all we got / You finally left the table / And what a simple thought / You’re starving ’til you’re not.”