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Details of Trump's second summit with Kim will be worked out in the immediate future, Trump told the media on Monday after a UN meeting on the Global Call for Action on the World Drug Problem.
"The relationships are very good with North Korea... [It] looks like we'll have a second summit quite soon. As you know, Kim Jong-un wrote a letter - a beautiful letter - asking for a second meeting and we will be doing that."
The first historic meeting between the two leaders took place in Singapore in June. However, talks between Pyongyang and Washington have stalled since then. Last month, Trump canceled the planned visit of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang, citing insufficient progress towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
On Monday, the US leader seemed to change tone as he hailed "tremendous progress on North Korea."
Meanwhile, South and North Korea have been settling matters in relation to the peninsula on their own. Last week, the two Koreas made unprecedented steps towards reconciliation and denuclearization, signing a military agreement and a joint declaration. One of the most remarkable steps, later praised by Trump, was the North's commitment to permanently shut down its Sohae Satellite Launching Station.
Comment: While the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee was holding its meeting a deadly terror attack struck a military parade in an oil-rich part of Iran. CNBC reports: Iran pointed out, quite rightly, that this attack was likely the work of US and its allies, with Rouhani stating that "It is Americans who instigate [these mercenaries] and provide them with necessary means to commit these crimes." Bingo. And don't forget, it wasn't that long ago that Pompeo (then head of the CIA) bragged to a gathering of neocons that covert ops in Iran were about to get 'much more vicious'.