Geng said bilateral and global issues would be taken up during the dialogue, which will be led on the USA side by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
"Two senior USA officials with direct knowledge (said) that military options for North Korea have recently been updated, and will be presented to President Donald Trump for a decision to act if there is a nuclear test", CNN reported Tuesday.
Last week, what initially seemed a gesture of goodwill by Pyongyang - the release of a detained United States tourist - turned sour when it was revealed that 22-year-old Otto Warmbier had been brain damaged and in a coma for some time.
"The most urgent and risky threat to peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region is North Korea", said Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia David Helvey on Tuesday.
He says the student, Otto Warmbier, had gone there a healthy man and ended up dead after "a minor act of mischief".
"What you are seeing I think is the American people's frustration with the regime that provokes and provokes and provokes and basically plays outside rules, plays fast and loose with the truth", Mattis told a news conference.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis will host Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief of the People's Liberation Army's Joint Staff.
USA spy satellites picked up on activity at North Korea's only nuclear testing site, Punggye-ri, according to CNN Tuesday night. South Korea's Defense Ministry said the bombers engaged in routine exercises with its fighter jets aimed at deterring the North.
"Specifically, we are going to give the DPRK/North Korea issue top priority", Ms Susan Thornton, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs, told reporters on Monday. "We reiterated to China that it has a diplomatic responsibility to exert much greater economic and diplomatic pressure on the regime if they want to prevent further escalation in the region".
Mosul's famous al-Nuri mosque blown up
Islamic State fighters are cornered in a portion of the city's closely packed neighborhoods on the Mosul's west side. The Islamic State has blown up The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in western Mosul, according to USA and Iraqi forces.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that administration officials were considering imposing sanctions on Chinese businesses that have ties to North Korean an effort to help curb their nuclear program, and also that officials found the Trump tweet perplexing.
The U.S. has also seen North Korean diplomats in foreign countries expelled over suspicions that they facilitated proliferation activities, the official said.
"This has been a unique opportunity for our nations to engage in philosophical level discussions about how we discuss these issues and discuss the way ahead", said Mattis. -Chinese talks in Washington.
On Wednesday, China called on relevant parties to consider and adopt these proposals, in a bid to pull the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue back on the right track of peaceful resolution through dialogue and consultation.
The death of an American college student after his imprisonment in North Korea is threatening to overshadow high-level U.S.
The talks also covered the South China Sea, where Beijing's island-building and construction of possible military facilities have rattled neighbors and caused tension with Washington. Trump appeared to acknowledge as much in a tweet Wednesday, a day after the death of US student Otto Warmbier, 22.
Earlier this month, two Chinese citizens were killed by Islamic State militants after being kidnapped in southwestern Pakistan. Divisive trade issues will be tackled separately at a later date.
The diplomatic and security dialogue is one of four high-level mechanisms established during the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in April this year. Three Americans remain in detention in the reclusive country.
Trump has not elaborated on what might happen next if China, by far the North s most important trading and diplomatic partner, is out of ideas.
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