North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is willing to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump for a third time for nuclear talks — if Washington comes to the table with the "correct posture" — but laid down a year-end deadline "for a bold decision from the U.S."

In a dispatch carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday, Kim said he wouldn't welcome a repeat of the Hanoi summit in February, when Trump walked out without securing a nuclear disarmament deal. While hailing his relationship with Trump, Kim also said the U.S. has been making "gangster-like" unilateral demands and should abandon that approach.

"If the U.S. adopts a correct posture and comes forward for the third DPRK-U.S. summit with a certain methodology that can be shared with us, we can think of holding one more talks," Kim said in a speech at North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature, according to the KCNA report.