Trump says relationship with N Korea's Kim 'remains good'

US President Donald Trump said Friday his relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un "remains good," despite the failure of a summit last week between the two leaders.

North Korea's state media had earlier acknowledged for the first time the collapse of the high-stakes Hanoi summit, which ended without any agreement on reducing Pyongyang's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

"I have a feeling that our relationship with North Korea, Kim Jong Un and myself, I think it is a very good one. I think it remains good," Trump told reporters at the White House.

The meeting was supposed to build on the leaders' historic first meeting in Singapore last year.

Trump repeated his frequent claim that he had brought the US back from the brink of war with North Korea since coming to office.

"This was a disaster. I inherited a mess. It is straightening out a lot. We are doing very well there," he said.

"I inherited a mess with North Korea and right now you have no (missile) testing. You have no nothing."