Trump is a fucking moron but sometimes he does something right.

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, flanked by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, shook hands with North Korean Gen. Kim Yong Chol at the White House on June 1, 2018.

Wall Street Journal - Trump Says June Summit With Kim Jong Un Is Back On. North Korean official hand-delivers letter to U.S. president in the White House from North Korean leader.

By Michael C. Bender and Vivian Salama June 1, 2018 145 COMMENTS

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said that the on-again off-again June 12 summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will proceed as initially planned, in remarks at the White House on Friday.

The comments came after one of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top lieutenants hand-delivered a letter to Mr. Trump on Friday and met with the president and top aides. Ahead of the meeting, administration officials had grown increasingly optimistic about the chances for the first summit between leaders of the two countries.

“We will be meeting June 12 in Singapore,” Mr. Trump told reporters. He tempered expectations for the initial meeting, saying the effort to get North Korea to end its nuclear program will “be a process.”

The letter from Mr. Kim was described as fairly basic, according to one foreign government official who was briefed on the contents. It expresses the North Korean leader’s interest in meeting without making any significant concessions or threats. The Kim lieutenant delivering the letter, Gen. Kim Yong Chol, who is under U.S. sanctions for his role in cyberattacks against American companies, is expected to remain in the U.S. until Saturday, the official said.

Mr. Trump is scheduled to spend the weekend in Camp David, Md.

U.S. officials have repeatedly insisted the summit will be aimed at the complete, verifiable and nonreversible denuclearization of North Korea.

Those demands sparked an outburst last week from Mr. Kim’s top officials, who insisted that the North would never give up its arsenal. The aggressive language, which belittled Vice President Mike Pence and suggested nuclear war, was enough for Mr. Trump to cancel the summit last week.

But North Korea expressed surprise at Mr. Trump’s reaction, and the two sides have resumed talks.

Gen. Kim, often described as Kim Jong Un’s right-hand man, met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday and Thursday in New York, and is in Washington on Friday to deliver the letter from the North Korean leader to Mr. Trump.

Mr. Kim’s letter was to be inspected by U.S. officials before it was delivered to Mr. Trump, White House officials said ahead of the meeting.

That meeting after 1 p.m. and lasted more than an hour, and included Mr. Pompeo and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. The North Korean general also has been accused of being involved in the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors, and has been sanctioned by the European Union as well.

Inside the White House, officials have been cautiously optimistic about a summit between Messrs. Trump and Kim on June 12 in Singapore. While officials said there is a chance the summit is postponed or canceled, several administration officials have said that meetings in New York, Singapore and on the Korean Peninsula have gone well during the past week.

“The answer is, we’re optimistic,” one White House official said Friday before the meeting began. “Everybody is thinking about this in a positive light.”

Write to Michael C. Bender at Mike.Bender@wsj.com