NEW YORK - Representatives from the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) met here Thursday in a bid to revive the long-stalled six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrived at the US mission to the United Nations in the morning, and was received by Stephen Bosworth, the US envoy for DPRK policy.

Bosworth will lead an "inter-agency team" in the two-day preliminary talks with the DPRK delegation headed by Kim, said State Department spokesperson Mark Toner.

The bilateral talks came after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday invited Kim to New York for discussions the potential resumption of the six-party talks, which have been on hold for more than two years.

South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac and his DPRK counterpart Ri Yong Ho last Friday held a bilateral meeting in Bali, Indonesia, where the two sides agreed to work to resume the six-party talks, which also include China, Japan and Russia.