Donald Trump has tweeted a "deal with North Korea is very much in the making", but the White House has said the President will not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un unless Pyongyang takes "concrete actions".
"The President will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by North Korea, so the president will actually be getting something," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a news briefing.
Ms Sanders was responding to criticism the US is getting nothing in exchange for agreeing to a historic face-to-face summit between Mr Trump and Mr Kim.
Ms Sanders did not specify what actions North Korea needed to take, and a White House official later said she was not intending to set new conditions for talks with Mr Kim.
North Korea's Government had yet to formally comment on its invitation to Mr Trump.
South Korea said the President agreed to meet Mr Kim by May, but Ms Sanders said no time and place had been set.
Mr Trump did not clear up confusion about preconditions or timing on Twitter, but said the possible summit was "very much in the making and will be, if completed, a very good one for the World".
The United States has long said it wanted any talks to aim at Pyongyang abandoning its nuclear weapons and missile programs, but Friday's announcement of a meeting was unexpected.
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