Bill Clinton briefed W.House on N.Korea -spokesman

WASHINGTON Aug 6 (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton has briefed a member of the White House's National Security Council about his trip to North Korea, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday.

Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, secured the release of two American journalists from North Korea this week after meeting with the country's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il.

The former president started formally debriefing White House officials about the trip, the first high-level U.S. contact with North Korea in nearly a decade, by speaking to a NSC staffer Wednesday night, Gibbs told reporters.

He said President Barack Obama, who has called on North Korea to give up its ambitions of becoming a nuclear-weapons power, also would meet with Clinton to discuss the trip. Gibbs did not say when the session would take place.

"We are trying to coordinate schedules," Gibbs said. "President Obama wants to see President Clinton."

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Paul Simao)