The controversy comes as the new President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, made his first diplomatic contacts with leaders of Japan and China, as well as US President Donald Trump.
Choi Sun-hee, the top North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the US, spoke briefly to reporters in Beijing en route to Pyongyang.
North Korea experts said the Oslo meeting could provide both countries a chance to explore talks, Yonhap reported.
Trump previously warned that the United States and North Korea could "absolutely" go to war in a "major, major conflict" over the communist state's nuclear threat.
"We'll have dialogue if the conditions are there", she told reporters when asked if the North was preparing to hold talks with the Trump administration, according to Yonhap. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article. Under tight conditions, North Korea may still export $400.87 million (374 million euros) or 7.5 million metric tons of coal per year, whichever is less.
Pyongyang has sought to advance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. She did not say what these conditions would be.
These comments, of course, are deliberately vague while being deliberately unattainable, underscoring the Trump Administration aversion to diplomacy in general, and long-standing U.S. opposition to reaching any sort of peace deal with North Korea.
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Choe had reportedly been in Norway for so-called "Track Two talks" with former USA government officials.
The diplomat's comments seemed to mirror that of President Trump's from an interview earlier this month with Bloomberg News.
The letter was directed to the U.S. House of Representatives in response to recently approved sanctions against North Korea's shipping industry.
North Korea fired on Sunday an unidentified projectile from a region near its west coast, South Korea's military said.
North Korea has even accused the Central Intelligence Agency of using chemical weapons in order to try and assassinate Kim Jong-un, as USA Today reports.
Tension has been high for weeks over North Korea's nuclear and missile development and fears it will conduct a sixth nuclear test or test-launch another ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
South Korean lawmakers have called on the National Assembly to convene a hearing and rescind the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile system to the country.
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