Speaking during a news briefing on Monday, Sanders said that a second meting with Kim is "something we want to take place."

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The letter from Kim didn't come as a surprise to the US president, who told reporters on Friday that a "personal letter is being delivered to me from Kim Jong-un," adding that he expected it to be a "positive" one.

The Monday announcement comes just one day after Trump praised Pyongyang for carrying out its 70th anniversary parade "without the customary display of nuclear missiles."

"This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong! There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other! Much better than before I took office," Trump tweeted on Sunday.

Trump and Kim held the first ever US-North Korean summit in Singapore in June, during which the two leaders broadly agreed to "work toward denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula.

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Although Trump initially hailed the talks as positive and productive, North Korea accused the US weeks later of making "gangster-like" demands on denuclearization.

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