The English language version of the statement issued by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) concerning Christopher Hill’s recent visit to North Korea: (via Reuters):

PYONGYANG - Christopher Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, visited the DPRK from June 21 to 22.

During his visit he met the DPRK foreign minister and had talks with a vice-minister of foreign affairs.

At the meeting and the talks both sides discussed the ways of completely settling the issue of the de-frozen funds just as they had agreed in Berlin in January last and boosting cooperation in the field of financial transaction in the future.

As for the issue of implementing the February 13 Agreement, both sides shared the view that they would start implementing the agreement on the premise that the issue of the remittance of the funds is finally settled, and had an in-depth exchange of views on the actions to be taken by each side in the next phase before agreeing to deepen contacts and consultations in the future.

The discussions of issues were comprehensive and productive.

Both sides agreed to examine the possibility of holding talks of the heads of the delegations to the six-party talks in the first half of July and opening a meeting of the foreign ministers of the six parties during the ministerial meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum slated to take place in Philippines early in August and cooperate with each other for their realisation for the present.