US President Donald Trump has received a request from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a follow-up to their historic June summit, and planning is in motion to make it happen.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that no details had been finalised, but that Trump had received a letter from Kim, which she described as "very warm, very positive."
"The primary purpose of the letter was to request and look to schedule another meeting with the president, which we are open to and are already in the process of coordinating that," Sanders said.
Relations between Trump and Kim have seemed to ebb and flow since Trump became the first sitting US president to meet a North Korean leader.
Their historic, one-day summit in June in Singapore was held to discuss denuclearising the Korean Peninsula, and Trump emerged from their talks full of praise for the authoritarian Kim.
Trump recently called off a planned visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea, citing lack of progress toward eliminating its nuclear arsenal.
But on Sunday, the president offered fresh praise for Kim following a North Korean military parade that, unlike past parades, downplayed its missiles and nuclear weapons.
"This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea," Trump tweeted on Sunday about the parade.
"Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong! There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other! Much better than before I took office."
Sanders also cited the parade in her comments on Monday.
"The recent parade in North Korea, for once, was not about their nuclear arsenal," she said, calling the parade "a sign of good faith."
Trump, she said, had achieved "tremendous success" with his policies so far toward North Korea "and this letter was further evidence of progress in that relationship."
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