"The political situation in the region has stabilized and I expect more advanced results,” North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un told South Korean President Moon Jae-in, referring to last June's Singapore gathering, at the start of a three-day summit in Pyongyang. | Photo by Pyeongyang Press Corps/Getty Images Foreign Policy Kim Jong Un: Singapore summit with Trump created stability

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday that his summit last June with President Donald Trump has provided geopolitical stability and that he expects more progress in talks between his nation and Washington.

Kim's comments, first reported by Reuters, were made at the start of a three-day summit at which Kim is meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang, the pair's third meeting of the year.


Kim also credited Moon with making the “historic” summit in Singapore possible.

“Thanks to that, the political situation in the region has stabilized and I expect more advanced results,” Kim told Moon, referring to the Singapore gathering, at the start of their talks.

The Kim-Moon summit is expected to serve as a litmus test for a second meeting between Trump and Kim, which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Sept. 10 was being planned. Talks between Washington and Pyongyang, while ongoing, have seemingly cooled in recent weeks amid reports that North Korea's nuclear program remains operational despite pledges from the Kim regime that it would be curtailed.

Kim requested the second meeting in a letter delivered to Trump via the State Department, Sanders said, describing the correspondence as “very warm, very positive.”