Clinton: "My husband is not secretary of state, I am"

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Usually calm in public, top U.S. diplomat Hillary Clinton snapped at a Congolese student on Monday when asked about her husband's views on a foreign policy issue, saying: "My husband is not secretary of state, I am."

"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?," she replied angrily when a university student in Kinshasa asked what former President Bill Clinton thought about a deal between China and Democratic Republic of Congo.

"If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion, I am not going to be channeling my husband," she added, without commenting further on the infrastructure-to-minerals deal that has raised some IMF concerns.

The former U.S. president stole the diplomatic spotlight from his wife last week. On the day she set off on an 11-day trip to Africa, Bill Clinton was on a secret mission to North Korea to secure the release of two U.S. journalists.

Clinton said afterward she was relieved the mission had been successful but made clear the former president's Pyongyang mission was purely humanitarian and not linked to the work she is doing to revive stalled nuclear talks.

(Reporting by Sue Pleming; editing by Jon Boyle)