A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States said Saturday that Pyongyang would have dialogue with the U.S. administration if conditions were right.

"If conditions are met, we will hold dialogue (with Washington)," Choe Son Hui, head of its Foreign Ministry's North America bureau, told reporters in Beijing before heading back to Pyongyang, following recent informal discussions with U.S. experts in Norway.

On North Korea's possible stance toward South Korea's new government of President Moon Jae-in, who upon taking office Wednesday said he is open to visiting North Korea under the right conditions, Choe said, "We have to wait and see."