Kim says he's still committed to denuclearization

North Korea’s will for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula remains “unchanged, consistent and fixed,” its leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday, according to Reuters, which cited to the North’s state news agency KCNA.

Kim’s comments came in a meeting with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He added he hoped North Korea-U.S. relations and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula would both be solved on a “stage-by-stage” basis, KCNA said.