North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered preparations for a second summit with US President Donald Trump, saying he'll "wait with patience and in good faith" to work toward a common goal.
The North's state media says Kim received a letter from Trump from a North Korean envoy who met the US president in Washington last week.
After the meeting, Trump said that he and Kim will probably meet around the end of February but did not say exactly when and where the summit would take place.
Thursday's report said Kim expressed satisfaction with his envoy's meeting with Trump and spoke highly of the US president for "expressing his unusual determination and will for the settlement of the issue with a great interest in the second summit."
"We will wait with patience and in good faith and, together with the US, advance step by step toward the goal to be reached by the two countries," Kim was quoted as saying.
Kim also "set forth tasks and orientation for making good technical preparations" for the second summit high on the agenda, according to the report.
Nuclear negotiations have been stuck since Kim and Trump met in Singapore last June for their first summit, which ended with Kim's vague denuclearisation pledge.
A summit accord stated that the United States and North Korea will commit to establishing new relations and join efforts to build a lasting and stable peace on the Korean Peninsula.
