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WASHINGTON, Jan. 18-- With the United States on Friday announcing a forthcoming summit between President Donald Trump and top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un, experts called for enhanced diplomatic efforts by both sides to achieve denuclearization and resolve other issues in their bilateral relations. Following a meeting in the White House between Trump and Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the DPRK's ruling Korean Workers' Party Central Committee, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said a leaders' meeting between the two countries "will take place near the end of February." "President Donald J. Trump met with Kim Yong Chol for an hour and half, to discuss denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February," Sanders said in a statement. "The President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date." Kyle Ferrier, a U.S.-based scholar of Korean studies, told Xinhua in an interview that Kim Yong Chol's visit to Washington suggests both sides are close to agreeing on the details for another summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un, the second after the one held in Singapore last June. "It's not clear what exactly would be on the table in a second summit, but it would need to meaningfully advance diplomacy," said Ferrier, director of academic affairs and research at Korea Economic Institute of America, a Washington think tank. | 
