Representatives  of Japan and China are set to meet on Tuesday in Tokyo to discuss ways to stop North Korea's development of missile systems and its nuclear programme, according to Japan's foreign ministry.

China's top nuclear envoy for Korean affairs Wu Dawei will hold talks with Kimihiro Ishikane, the chief of Japan's foreign ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, on strategies to denuclearize Pyongyang.

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Wu is the head of the long-stalled six-party negotiations, which is aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programme. The talks have been inactive since 2008.

Six-party talks

The six-party talks, which include the two Koreas, China, US, Russia and Japan hit a brick wall in the late 2008. Since then, Pyongyang has fired multiple missile tests and rockets prompting China to call for the resumption of the talks.

The meeting between envoys from China and Japan is expected to end on Friday.

The meeting comes on the heels of North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January and a rocket launch in February. The rocket launch led to new and stricter sanctions being imposed against Pyongyang by the United Nations Security Council.

Revenge

Pyongyang continues to defy UN sanctions and has repeatedly fired ballistic missiles into the sea in response to the harsh punishment the UN has imposed against it.

President Xi Jinping, in his talks with Seoul President Park Geun-hye last week, underscored dialogues and consultations as the ideal ways to curb Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

He said that all parties involved should strictly implement the UN sanctions against North Korea and fully carry out the UN resolution to the letter.

President Xi and US President Barack Obama have vowed to work together to halt Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions by implementing the resolution "strictly." 

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