A German lawmaker says North Korea's parliament wants to open ties with South Korea's legislature.

Harmut Koschyk, chairman of the South Korean-German lawmakers association, said that the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea wants to open parliamentary relations with the South and hold talks between their lawmakers.

Koschyk and other members of Germany's Lower House of Parliament came back to Seoul Friday after a four-day visit to the North earlier this week. In Pyongyang, the German delegation met with North Korean officials, including Ri Jong-hyok, deputy speaker of the North Korean legislature and chairman of the North Korea-German Parliamentary Friendship Association.

Ri and six other North Korean officials will fly to Seoul on Monday to attend a forum commemorating the landmark June 15th, 2000 inter-Korean summit.

Koschyk said North Korea responded positively to the German delegation's proposal to hold a three-way meeting between lawmakers of the Koreas and German parliamentarians in Berlin next year.