President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had “an incredible” meeting with North Korea’s nuclear envoy Kim Yong Chol and the two sides had made “a ton of advancement” on denuclearization.

The White House reported after Friday talks that Trump would hold a second summit with North Korean pioneer Kim Jong Un in late February, however would keep up monetary sanctions on Pyongyang.

“That was an incredible meeting,” Trump, addressing correspondents at the White House, said of the discussions.

“We’ve agreed to meet sometime, probably the end of February. We’ve picked a country but we’ll be announcing it in the future. Kim Jong Un is looking very forward to it and so am I,” Trump said.

“We have made a lot of progress as far as denuclearization is concerned and we are talking about a lot of different things. Things are going very well with North Korea.”

Trump and the White House have given no subtleties of the discussions, and regardless of his upbeat remarks there has been no sign of any narrowing of contrasts over U.S. requests that North Korea abandon a nuclear weapons program that undermines the United States and Pyongyang’s requests for a lifting of punishing sanctions.

A first summit in June in Singapore — the first-ever between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean pioneer — created a vague commitment by Kim Jong Un to progress in the direction of the denuclearization of the Korean landmass, yet he still can’t seem to take what Washington sees as solid strides toward that path.

Critics of U.S. endeavors state the primary summit just helped Kim’s international stature without a lot to appear for it, and some trust Trump may see a second meeting as a method for diverting from his local inconveniences.

Trump did not expand on the nation picked to have the summit, however Vietnam has been viewed as a leading candidate.

Kim Yong Chol, viewed as an individual from Kim Jong Un’s inward circle, additionally had chats on Friday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. exceptional agent on North Korea, Stephen Biegun.

The State Department said the two sides had “a productive first meeting at the working level” and Biegun would go to Sweden at the end of the week to go to an international conference.

The conference is likewise being gone to by North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui. Washington has been quick to set up talks among Biegun and Choe yet North Korea has opposed, apparently needing to keep exchanges high-level.