JAPAN: China's special envoy on talks with Japanese counterpart on recent missile test launches from North Korea

Record ID: 463667

  • Title: JAPAN: China's special envoy on talks with Japanese counterpart on recent missile test launches from North Korea
  • Date: 10th July 2009
  • Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 9, 2009) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) EXTERIOR OF JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) JAPANESE VICE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN MINISTRY MITOJI YABUNAKA WELCOMING CHINA'S SPECIAL ENVOY ON NORTH KOREA WU DAWEI YABUNAKA AND WU ENTERING INTO THE MEETING ROOM JAPAN'S ENVOY TO NORTH KOREA AKITAKA SAIKI SHAKING HANDS WITH WU / DELEGATES ENTERING INTO THE MEETING ROOM REPORTERS SURROUNDING WU AS HE WALKS DOWN THE HALLWAY (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINA'S SPECIAL ENVOY ON NORTH KOREA WU DAWEI SAYING: "What we expect is to peacefully solve the issue through dialogue and talks. We hope that the countries can work together to resume the six-party talks soon." SAIKI MEETING THE PRESS AFTER THE TALK WITH WU (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE ASIAN AND OCEANIAN AFFAIRS OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF JAPAN, AKITAKA SAIKI, SAYING: "As the six-party talks has been halted for a while, we discussed about how to put the talks back on the track including a "new approach" for the resumption. We agreed to keep co-operating on this matter." MORE OF SAIKI ANSWERING TO REPORTERS PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF NORTH KOREAN SOLDIERS MARCHING AT MILITARY PARADE
  • Embargoed: 25th July 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Japan
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVA2QB8BK4JWCAK79KOVWF9NTMJ7
  • Story Text: China's envoy on North Korea met his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo Thursday (July 9) to discuss countermeasures aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nuclear program.
    Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei has been visiting the key partner countries on North Korean issues from last week including the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea to engage in what Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said "a thorough exchange of views on the North Korean nuclear issue."
    "What we expect is to peacefully solve the issue through dialogue and talks. We hope that the countries can work together to resume the six-party talks soon," Wu told reporters after he had a series of meetings with Japanese vice foreign minister Mitoji Yabunaka and Japanese envoy on North Korea Akitaka Saiki.
    Japan agreed with Beijing on pushing dialogue with Pyongyang to pull it back on on track for peaceful settlement of the North Korean nuclear crisis.
    "As the six-party talks has been halted for a while, we discussed about how to put the talks back on the track including a "new approach" for the resumption. We agreed to keep cooperating on this matter," Saiki told reporters after the talk.
    Pyongyang fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday -- the U.S. July 4 Independence Day -- in an apparent act of defiance of Washington, which has cracked down on firms suspected of helping the North in its arms and missiles trade.
    The launches also alarmed Japan and South Korea, which are within range of North Korean missiles.
    China, the closest reclusive North Korea has to a major ally, backed the U.N. Resolution 1874 condemning the North's May 25 nuclear test and imposing new sanctions, but has long been reluctant to press for more.
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