Tuesday briefing: Kim again? Trump ready for second summit

Donald Trump wants to hold another summit with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader. The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, said Trump had received a “very warm, very positive” letter from Kim and that the administration was “already in the process of coordinating” the summit.

Talks between the US and North Korea have stalled since the leaders shook hands in Singapore in June. Last month Trump told his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to delay a planned trip to North



Korea due to lack of progress on denuclearisation. But Trump praised Kim on the weekend after the country made changes to its military parade: “There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other!”

Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, has said Kim told South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, that the North could denuclearise “in one year … [But] they’re the ones that have to take the steps to denuclearise, and that’s what we’re waiting for.”