President Trump said Monday he is open to direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un despite growing tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program.

“If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “If it’s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that.”

North Korea has rocketed to the top of Trump’s list of world hotspots over its repeated nuclear and ballistic missile tests, which violate international arms agreements.

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Pyongyang’s aggression has rattled regional allies, such as South Korea and Japan, and spurred fears over whether Kim could launch a nuclear strike on U.S. soil.

“Most political people would never say that,” Trump told Bloomberg of his openness to meeting Kim. “But I’m telling you under the right circumstances I would meet with him. We have breaking news.”

Trump has repeatedly denounced Kim’s actions. His administration recently dispatched a carrier group to the Korean Peninsula and pushed forward on adding a U.S.-backed missile defense system in South Korea over the objections of China.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said during an interview with “CBS This Morning” earlier Monday that he couldn’t see a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Kim "right now."

"Unless the person was willing to disarm and give up what he’s put in mountainsides across the country and give up his drive for nuclear capability and [intercontinental ballistic missiles] … I think the answer is probably not, and I don’t see that happening.”