朝鲜领导人金正恩表示，他的目标是在2021年初美国总统特朗普的第一个任期结束时实现朝鲜半岛无核化，特朗普对此表示感谢。
平壤的去核谈判最近停滞不前。特朗普总统上个月取消了国务卿蓬佩奥计划返回朝鲜进行更多谈判的行程。
特朗普总统周四在推特上对金正恩的声明表示谢意，他的推文写道，“朝鲜（领导人）金正恩声明‘对特朗普总统的信心坚定不移’，谢谢金主席。我们会一起完成这个目标！”
朝鲜官方的朝中社发表声明称，金正恩有意愿“彻底消除朝鲜半岛武装冲突和战争恐怖的危险，并将其变为没有核武器，不受核威胁的和平的摇篮”。
南北双方还表示，两国领导人将于9月18日至20日在平壤举行第三次峰会。
韩国总统文在寅周四晚些时候与助手开会时表示，他对这次与金正恩的会谈将有助于美朝加速对话从而实现半岛完全无核化抱有很高期望。
在今年4月的第一次朝韩峰会期间，文在寅和金正恩同意寻求正式结束1950至1953的朝鲜战争。那场战争是以停战协议而不是和平条约结束，理论上南北双方仍处于战争状态。但是华盛顿要求平壤在签署任何正式和平协议之前完全放弃其核武计划，而朝鲜则希望美国从半岛撤军。
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he is aiming to denuclearize the Korean peninsula by the end of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in early 2021, prompting thanks from the American leader.
Talks to dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal have stalled recently, with Trump last month ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to not return to North Korea for more discussions.
But Trump welcomed Kim’s statement Thursday, writing on Twitter, “Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims ‘unwavering faith in President Trump.’ Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!”
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency issued a statement saying it is Kim Jong Un’s “will to completely remove the danger of armed conflict and horror of war from the Korean peninsula and turn it into the cradle of peace without nuclear weapons and free from nuclear threat.”
North and South Korea said they would hold their third summit in Pyongyang from September 18 to 20.
The previous two Korean summits were held in Panmunjon, the truce village in the border zone that separates the autocratic North from the democratic South.
During a meeting with his aides later Thursday, Moon said he had high expectations that his next summit with Kim would accelerate talks between the U.S. and North Korea, leading to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
During their first summit in April, Moon and Kim agreed to seek a formal end to 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with a truce rather than a peace treaty, leaving the sides in a technical state of war. But Washington is demanding that Pyongyang completely abandon its nuclear weapons program ahead of any formal peace deal, while North Korea wants the United States to remove all its troops from the Korean Peninsula.