Kim Jong-un: 'Open to another summit with Trump'

North Korean leader Kim Jongun said he is open to having a third summit with U.S. President Donald Trump if the United States could offer acceptable terms for an agreement by the end of the year.

Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Saturday that Kim said this during a session of the North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, adding he also said his relations with Trump still remain excellent.

"If the U.S. proposes holding a third North Korea-U.S. summit with the right attitude and right method, we have a willingness to do it one more time," Kim was quoted as saying. "I will not hesitate at all in signing an agreement only if it is written in a way that meets the interests of the DPRK and the U.S., and is fair, mutually acceptable, and this will entirely depend upon with what attitude and calculus the U.S. would come up with."

Kim said that the North would not stick to summits with the U.S. for the sake of easing sanctions but wait "patiently" until the year's end for Washington to make a "courageous decision."

His remarks came a day after Trump said during a summit with South Korean President Moon Jaein that he is open to a third summit with the North Korean leader.

Kim and Trump met for the first time last June in Singapore and agreed to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in exchange for Washington's security guarantees. Denuclearization talks, however, have been stalled since the breakdown of a second summit in Vietnam in late February.

The Hanoi summit fell apart as they failed to find common ground over how to match denuclearization steps with sanctions relief.

Pyongyang wanted major sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear facility. But Washington insisted on what officials described as "a big deal" that called for trading sanctions relief for the dismantlement of all of the North's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Last month, North Korea warned that it could end nuclear negotiations with the U.S., saying it would not give in to "gangster-like" demands.