A second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be held at the end of February, the White House said Friday after a meeting with one of Kim’s top advisers.
“President Donald J. Trump met with Kim Yong Chol for an hour and half, to discuss denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “The President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date.”
The president held a historic summit with Kim in Singapore in June. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed plans to move word toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
Trump said recently that sanctions against Pyongyang will continue but told reporters recently that things are going “very well” with North Korea.
“There’s no rockets,” he told reporters this month, referring to North Korea’s recent lack of missile tests. “There’s no anything. We’re doing very well.”
National security adviser John Bolton, however, said in December that North Korea was not abiding by the commitments it made during the summit in Singapore.
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