Seoul and Beijing have been in arrangements for summit talks between President Lee Jae Myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping early next year, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Monday. Asked during an interview with Yonhap News TV whether Lee and Xi would hold summit talks early next year, Cho replied, "We have been in (relevant) consultations with China." Cho said a date for the planned summit between Lee and Xi will be announced "soon." If the summit is held, how to persuade North Korea to return to the dialogue table will be a major agenda item, Cho said. "It will be important to seek China's cooperation so that North Korea can come to the dialogue table," Cho said. South Korea has called on China to play a role in fostering conditions to resume dialogue with North Korea, with China reaffirming its commitment to ensuring stability on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomatic tensions between Seoul and Beijing persist over China's steel structures built in the overlapping sea zone in the Yellow Sea. The steel towers have raised speculation that China has installed them to lay territorial claims to t