President Trump suggested Friday that his June 12 summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which he postponed Thursday, might still occur on the aforementioned date.

“We’ll see what happens. It could even be the 12th. We're talking to them now,” the president told reporters before departing the White House for Annapolis, Md. “They very much want to do it. We'd like to do it. We’re going to see what happens.”



Trump on North Korea: "We're going to see what happens. We're talking to them now." pic.twitter.com/Ax5Wb3C6FO — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 25, 2018



According to the White House press pool, Trump responded if "everybody plays games," when asked if the North Korean regime was playing games.

The president said in an open letter to Kim on Thursday he decided to pull out of the summit, scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, due to “tremendous anger and open hostility” coming from Pyongyang.

The decision came after one of North Korea’s vice ministers of foreign affairs made derogatory comments about Vice President Mike Pence and warned of a nuclear showdown in a statement carried by KCNA, Pyongyang’s news agency.

But in a subsequent statement following Trump’s withdrawal from the meeting, Kim Kye Gwan, a top official at North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, said the regime is still interested in meeting with Trump “at any time,” according to CNN.

Trump let the door open for the summit proceeding as planned before a bill signing at the White House on Thursday and reiterated it remains an option.

“We're going to see what happens. We're talking to them now,” the president said. “It was a very nice statement they put out. We'll see what happens.”

