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Associated Press

Nuclear envoys of Japan and China will meet in Tokyo on Tuesday to discuss responses to North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear and missile programmes, Japan’s foreign ministry said on Monday.
Wu Dawei, China’s special representative for Korean affairs, will meet Kimihiro Ishikane, head of the foreign ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, on his first visit to Japan in his government capacity since December 2012, when Shinzo Abe became Japan’s prime minister.
Wu serves as the chairman of the long-stalled six-party negotiations aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons ­programme.

The talks, involving the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, have been dormant since late 2008. But China, considered more capable than any other country of exerting influence on North Korea, has been making greater calls for resuming them.
China reaffirms its commitment to North Korea sanctions
Wu’s visit to Japan, which ends on Friday, follows North Korea’s fourth nuclear test in January and launch of a long-range rocket using banned ballistic missile technology a month later, which has led to additional sanctions against Pyongyang by the United Nations Security Council.
Despite the punitive measures, North Korea has continued to fire ballistic missiles and projectiles into the sea.

In his talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington last week, President Xi Jinping said all parties should fully and strictly carry out the resolution adopted by the Security Council in March to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes, and that dialogue and consultations were the only way to settle the issue.
Xi and US President Barack Obama also agreed to work together to foil Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions by “fully”, “strictly” and “vigilantly” carrying out the ­resolution.


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South Korea’s army carries out a live-fire drill in the eastern coastal county of Goseong, which borders North Korea, on Monday. Photo: AFP

China's top nuclear envoy, Wu Dawei, (L) arrives at Pyongyang's international airport on Feb. 2, 2016, as the U.N. Security Council discusses imposing additional sanctions on Pyongyang following its fourth nuclear test in January. Wu serves as chairman of the long-stalled six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Kimihiro Ishikane, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, arrives at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 27, 2015, for talks with Lee Sang Deok, director general of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry, to prepare for a foreign ministerial meeting the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Meeting between Wu Dawei and Kimihiro Ishikane in Tokyo comes as Pyongyang bristles over fresh UN sanctions following its rocket launch in January
