North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun on Tuesday held talks with visiting U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill at the Mansudae Assembly Hall, the official news agency reported.

The report gave no further details of the meeting.

Hill, a U.S. assistant secretary of state, paid his second visit to Pyongyang in six months on Monday to negotiate the issue of nuclear declaration.

(Xinhua News Agency December 4, 2007)