The United States and North Korea have agreed to hold a third round of high-level talks in Beijing next week.

U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Monday that U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies will lead an inter-agency team to Beijing next Thursday to meet with a North Korean delegation led by First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-kwan.

The two sides are expected to discuss the implementation of preliminary steps for denuclearization, which Pyongyang reportedly agreed to last December. The upcoming talks will also address the U.S.’s plan to provide 240-thousand tons of food aid to the North.

The U.S. and the North held their first round of high-level talks last July and the second round of talks three months later. The two countries were planning to hold a third round of discussions in Beijing last December, but the talks were canceled following Kim Jong-il’s death.