Trump wants a second meeting with North Korea Kim Jong Un early 2019

President TrumpDonald John TrumpMidterms: Winners and Losers GOP Representative, Mike Bost, re-elected to Illinois Sisolak becomes the first Dem to win the Nevada Governor's Run since 1994 MORE m said Wednesday that he expects his second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to take place "early next year".

"We are going to change that because of the trips that are being made. We will do it at another date. We are very pleased with developments in North Korea. We think everything will be fine, "Trump told reporters at a press conference after the election.

"We are not in a hurry. We are not in a hurry. "

Trump's remarks came as his administration reported a Thursday meeting between the secretary of state Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard The PompeoPompeo meeting with North Korean officials is postponed Pompeo approves a sanctions exception for the development of an Iranian port to help the Afghan economy The Hill & # 39; s Morning – The Last Judgment: New Data Suggests Significant Earnings for Dem. and a senior North Korean official.

The meeting of Pompeo with Kim Yong Chol, the former head of the North Korean spy agency who spearheaded the nuclear talks for North Korea, will take place at an indeterminate date, said state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert in a statement released on Wednesday.

Pompeo had planned to go to New York to meet the North Korean leader. Trump noted Wednesday that the Pompeo meeting would be postponed.

The administration has made little progress in North Korea's denuclearization since Trump's meeting with Kim in Singapore in June.

At the summit, the two leaders signed a brief statement in which they committed to a "denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula, without, however, giving details of the objective or objectives of the two countries.

Trump and Kim had declared that they would like to hold a second summit, but no meeting has yet been scheduled.

North Korea is now seeking to ease its sanctions by lightening its nuclear weapons, but Pompeo said this weekend that the United States would not lift the sanctions until they would not could verify that the isolated nation had stopped its missile and nuclear programs.

"The sanctions are applied, the missiles are stopped, the rockets are stopped. …. I'd like to lift the sanctions, but they [North Korea] must be sensitive, too. It's a two-way street. But we are not in a hurry at all. We are in no hurry, "said Trump.