The United States says it is actively preparing for the much anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-Un scheduled to hold by 9 am on June 12 in Singapore.

According to White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the planning for the historic summit is continuing as according to her, ‘good progress has been made’ already towards achieving a successful summit.

Sanders added that the White House ‘advance team’ which features military, security, technical and medical staff was already on the ground in Singapore.

“We are actively preparing for the 12 June summit between the president and the North Korean leader. We feel like things are continuing to move forward, and good progress has been made,” Sanders said on Monday.

The announcement of the timing for the first meeting between the two leaders is coming just days after Trump hosted a senior North Korean delegation to the White House bearing a letter from Kim.

Asked about the contents of Kim’s letter, Sanders veered off from getting into the specifics of the letter but added: “We feel like things are continuing to move forward and good progress has been made”.

Trump, who had previously canceled the summit, abruptly announced the meeting was going to go on as planned.

She added that Trump is getting daily briefings from his national security team on the situation in North Korea in the run-up to the landmark meeting.

Washington has called that unacceptable and demanded North Korea embark on full and verifiable denuclearization.

With days to go before the meeting, it remains unclear whether Pyongyang is willing to go ahead with total denuclearization as demanded by the US or whether it is using the promise of talks as a way of easing Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign.

Trump had last week said he no longer wanted to use that term, indicating that he was willing to embark on a lengthy series of talks that would ease pressure on the Kim’s regime.