Kim Kye-gwan, head of the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has arrived for the third round of six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula, sources with the DPRK Embassy in Beijing said Tuesday morning.

Kim is also DPRK deputy foreign minister and head of the DPRK delegation to the second round of six-party talks held in Beijing in late February this year, and the heads of the delegations of Russia, the Republic of Korea (ROK), the United States and Japan will arrive here later Tuesday.