The Trump administration's "slow, steady, patient" diplomacy with North Korea will go on unchanged, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday, even as a months-long diplomatic stalemate with Pyongyang continues with no obvious end in sight.

The official, speaking to reporters in Washington on condition of anonymity, repeated the Trump administration's optimistic stance of late that its DPRK policy -- despite the numerous ongoing disputes dividing the two countries -- would ultimately lead to more negotiations, more talks, and, eventually, peace.