North Korea’s top nuclear envoy has held an extensive meeting with Chinese officials on ways to resume the six-way nuclear talks.

Kim Kye-kwan, who arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, visited China’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to meet with senior officials there.

The talks reportedly focused on Pyongyang’s conditions for the resumption of the nuclear talks. The North has previously stated the lifting of U.N. sanctions and the adoption of a peace treaty with the U.S. as preconditions to returning to the multilateral dialogue.

Though the results of Wednesday’s talks have yet to be confirmed, positive signs are emerging with regards to efforts to get the nuclear talks back on track.

Meanwhile, China’s top nuclear negotiator, Wu Dawei, has been appointed China’s special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs.

The move apparently was aimed at matching the U.S. in its recent creation of the post of “special representative for North Korea policy” and at creating a mood conducive to the reopening of the six-nation talks.