Trump says he plans to meet with North Korea’s Kim Feb. 27-28

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he plans to hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam.

Trump confirmed the date during his State of the Union address, saying while “much work remains to be done” be believes his relationship with Kim “is a good one.”

“As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped and there has not been a missile launch in more than 15 months,” Trump said.

“If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea.”{mosads}

Trump confirmed the date after reports emerged this week in the South China Morning Post and other outlets saying the pair planned to meet in Vietnam.

Trump and Kim met for a high-profile summit last July in Singapore, the first-ever sit down between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.

At that summit the two leaders issued a joint declaration with North Korea agreeing to work toward the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” in exchange for unspecified security guarantees from the U.S.

Since then, concrete progress has lagged behind that goal.

Last week, top U.S. intelligence officials told the Senate they continue to assess that North Korea does not intend to relinquish its nuclear weapons.

“We continue to assess that North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, even as it seeks to negotiate partial denuclearization steps to obtain key US and international concessions,” read an intelligence report delivered in conjunction with the Senate hearing.

A day later, Trump shot back on Twitter, saying there is a “decent chance” at denuclearization.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats did tell the Senate that North Korea appeared willing to reach agreements to improve relations.

“North Korea has not conducted any nuclear-capable missile tests in more than a year and it has dismantled some of its nuclear infrastructure. As well, Kim Jong Un continues to demonstrate openness to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Coats said.

A memo from United Nations monitors to the U.N. Security Council obtained by Reuters on Monday reportedly said that they had “found evidence of a consistent trend on the part of the DPRK to disperse its assembly, storage and testing location.”