South Korea protested to China for breaking diplomatic...

South Korea protested to China for breaking diplomatic practices by executing a Korean drug dealer in China.
President Kim Dae-jung told a cabinet meeting that Beijing should have informed Seoul of the execution 'beforehand under the spirit of the Vienna convention on consular affairs'.
Vice Foreign Minister Choi Sung-Hong summoned China's ambassador Li Bin to his ministry and said Beijing, following the Vienna Convention on consular affairs, should have notified Seoul in advance of the execution. Both sides agreed that the "trivial incident" should not sour the further development of bilateral ties.
Kim Kyong-Keun, director general of the ministry's consular affairs bureau, summoned Chinese Consul General Xu Zeyou, warning Mr Xu that Beijing had neglected diplomatic practices and procedures.
Although the 41-year-old man was executed on September 25, China reported the case to South Korea only in mid-October.
The Chinese government also told Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade [MOFAT] that one of another three South Koreans taken into custody with Shin, identified as Jeong (58 at the time), died in November and the other two people identified as Park, 61, and Jeong, 59, had been sentenced to imprisonment for life and 10 years in prison, respectively. Shin was the first South Korean to be sentenced to death outside Korea for criminal acts.