President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un will hold a summit "near the end of February," the White House said Friday, without specifying the location.
"The president looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date," spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said after Trump met for 90 minutes with top North Korean general Kim Yong-chol.
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The new summit to discuss Pyongyang's denuclearisation will follow a first meeting held in Singapore in June 2018.
Sanders said Trump was meeting Kim Yong-chol to discuss relations between the two countries and continued progress on "North Korea's final, fully verified denuclearisation".
The former North Korea former spy chief earlier met Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a Washington hotel.
Trump has spoken several times of prospects for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un early this year.
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He has also exchanged several letters with Kim despite little tangible progress on a vague denuclearisation agreement reached at their historic first meeting last June in Singapore.
A planned meeting between Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol in New York last November was called off abruptly. US officials said at the time that North Korea had cancelled the session.
The talks have stalled over North Korea's refusal to provide a detailed accounting of its nuclear and missile facilities that would be used by inspectors to verify any deal to dismantle them.
The North has demanded that the US end harsh economic penalties and provide security guarantees before the North takes any steps beyond its initial suspension of nuclear and missile tests.
