Abrar Hussain: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly written to US President Donald Trump, asking for a follow-up to their historic summit, the White House says.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the administration is already looking at scheduling a new meeting, as the letter showed Pyongyang’s “continued commitment to focus on denuclearization”.
Negotiations on the topic appeared to have stalled after the two leaders’ historic summit in Singapore in June.
“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,” said Sanders.
However, she gave no indication when a second meeting between the two leaders could potentially take place.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in welcomed the news, saying that “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is an issue that should fundamentally be resolved between the US and North Korea through negotiation.”
Pyongyang’s letter comes a day after Yukiya Amano, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, warned that North Korea’s ongoing nuclear activities violated UN Security Council resolutions.
-Source: BBC