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This is the first political meeting between the two countries since the North Korean regime perform last January 6 its fourth nuclear test.

The meeting will take place before the end of this month. Japan intends to solicit support for China to apply tough sanctions regime of Kim Jong-un for its recent weapons tests

Japan and China plan to hold in the coming days in Tokyo diplomatic level talks focused on recent weapons testing in North Korea and in the implementation of future sanctions, according to a report Monday by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei and collected by.

This is the first political meeting between the two countries since the North Korean regime perform last January 6 its fourth nuclear test and launched two weeks ago, a satellite aboard a rocket, an action that the international community considers a missile test covert.

According to available information, the meeting will take place before the end of this month and it will come Assistant Chinese Foreign Minister in charge of Asian affairs, Xuanyou Kong, and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama.

After the nuclear test on 6 January, the foreign ministers of Tokyo and Beijing, Fumio Kishida and Wang Yi respectively, have been unable to coordinate their agendas for a meeting, and that would be the reason that has been stretched so far .

Japan wants to support China to apply sanctions to the regime of Kim Jong-un

According to the Japanese Nikkei, the Japanese government is keen to talk to China about the actions carried out by the regime of Kim Jong-un, because China's influence on North Korea.

During the meeting this month, Japan intends to solicit support for China in implementing tougher sanctions of the Security Council of the UN to the regime of Kim Jong-un, as punishment for its recent weapons tests.


North Korea came silently US officials through the United Nations in New York last fall to propose formal peace talks to end the Korean War, a response to the comments from President Barack Obama that the US .S. he was willing to participate Pyongyang, as it has with other rogue regimes, senior US officials told CNN.

That effort fell short, officials said, with the North Koreans refuse to include its nuclear program in any negotiations as the US necessary and shortly after testing a nuclear weapon.

But it represented a new stage in the Obama administration as it tried to attract the hermetic country from its isolation and extend its record of successful negotiations with the nations long at odds with the United States, such as Iran and Cuba.

The USA. They said North Korea was willing to discuss a peace officer to replace the armistice 63 years old, which ended hostilities after the Korean War, but only if efforts to curb Pyongyang's nuclear program were part discussions.

Thus, the administration dropped a longstanding demand that North Korea take steps toward "denuclearization" before talks on a formal peace treaty began. Still, the North Koreans refused to allow the nuclear issue be part of any conversation.

"It's a touch-up conditions," said Bruce Klingner, a member of the Heritage Foundation and former deputy division chief of the CIA in South Korea, describing the motion of the administration.

"Instead of requiring progress on denuclearization before negotiations, it appears that the administration according to the idea of ​​peace talks but denuclearization talks required to be included," Klingner said.

The Wall Street Journal first reported in diplomatic exchanges, but the Obama discusses his description of events, saying it was North Korea, which first proposed the talks instead of the United States, which keeps its focus on rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons.

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