North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday that his summit last June with President Donald Trump has provided geopolitical stability and that he expects more progress in talks between his nation and Washington.
Kim’s comments, first reported by Reuters, were made at the start of a three-day summit where Kim is meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang, the pair’s third meeting of the year.
Kim also credited Moon with making the “historic” summit in Singapore possible.
“Thanks to that, the political situation in the region has stabilized and I expect more advanced results,” Kim told Moon, referring to the Singapore gathering, at the start of their talks.
The Kim-Moon summit is expected to serve as a litmus test for a second meeting between Trump and Kim, which White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on September 10 is being planned. Talks between Washington and Pyongyang, while ongoing, have seemingly cooled in recent weeks amid reports that North Korea’s nuclear program remains operational despite pledges from the Kim regime that it would be curtailed.
Kim requested the second meeting in a letter delivered to Trump via the State Department, Sanders said, describing the correspondence as “very warm, very positive.”