THE Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States agreed Sunday to hold further negotiation for the second DPRK-U.S. summit at an early date.

Top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the pledge to make the arrangement, DPRK’s state-run news agency KCNA reported.

“There was an agreement on the issue of holding the working negotiation for the second DPRK-U.S. summit talks as early as possible, and relevant procedure-related issues and ways were also discussed,” it said.

The talks were “productive and wonderful” at which mutual stands were fully understood and opinions exchanged, said the report.

Kim “expressed his will and conviction that great progress would surely be made in solving the issues of utmost concern of the world” in the projected second DPRK-U.S. summit talks, according to the report.

Kim believed that the dialogue and negotiations “would continue to develop favorably in the future.”(Xinhua)