"The conditions are putting President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un in a place where we think there could be real progress made by the two of them meeting." There's a very good chance that it won't be done in one meeting or two meetings or three meetings. Kim hoped US-DPRK relations and denuclearization of the peninsula will both be solved on a "stage-by-stage" basis, according to KCNA. Ryan Hass, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that while a summit between Trump and Kim would be historic, it is unlikely to be decisive. At Thursday's briefing in New York, Pompeo responded "don't know" when asked if the summit will take place as originally scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.