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The United States offered no new proposals or alternatives at the latest talks with North Korea, with discussions focused on exchanging views, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Thursday.

Chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill and North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan met for a third day in Berlin, adding an unplanned session before Hill's departure to Asia.

The meeting lasted less than an hour, Casey said.

Hill briefed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after she arrived in Germany on Wednesday, he said.

The Berlin talks were held as six-party participants waited for Pyongyang to return to denuclearization talks with its response to U.S. proposals made in December.

South and North Korea, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan are members of the six-way forum aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

"There were a number of proposals that were made, everyone agreed to go back and look at them," Casey said. The sessions in Germany were "to exchange views on where people saw things as being," he said.

There have been no proposals or alternatives at the sessions, the spokesman said. "There's been no change between yesterday and today in terms of anybody's views or thoughts on this."

Hill will be in Seoul Friday on his first stop on an Asia trip.

He travels on to Beijing and Tokyo for consultations on the six-party talks.

Washington, Jan. 18 (Yonhap News)