Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei will visit North Korea from August 27 to 30, a press release from the Foreign Ministry said.

The two sides will exchange views on bilateral relations and the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, according to the ministry.

Wu, also the Chinese delegation head to the fourth round of six-party talks, visited Japan from August 23 to 26.

Earlier this month, the fourth-round six-party talks, involving China, the US, Russia, Japan, South and North Korea, entered a three-week recess after 13 days of consultations. All the parties agreed to resume the talks in the week beginning August 29.

There has been a flurry of diplomatic activities recently, including the several contacts between the US and North Korea. But no specific date has so far been set for the resumption of the talks.

(Xinhua News Agency August 27, 2005)