People watch a television news screen showing pictures of US President Donald Trump (C) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) at a railway station in Seoul on November 29, 2017.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the time and place of a critical summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un could be announced in the coming days.

The president did not give any more details on the meeting, during which he will try to craft a path toward the dictatorship giving up its nuclear and missile programs.

"I want to get peace. The main thing — we want to get peace. ... We'll see," Trump told reporters during an event at the White House. "We're setting up meetings right now and I think it's probably going to be announced over the next couple of days — location and date."

Asked later Tuesday about Trump's comments, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the list of potential meeting locations has been "narrowed." She said she expects an announcement "soon."