President Donald Trump suggested on Monday he could meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip to Asia next month.
The president briefly spoke to reporters Monday evening on his way to Joint Base Andrews en route to a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio.
“I may. I may. That would be exciting, but I get along with him,” Trump told reporters when asked about a meeting with Kim.
Trump in August also said that he planned to meet with the North Korean dictator before the end of the year.
The president is scheduled to visit the Philippines after the 2026 midterm elections for the 2026 Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.
Trump and Kim met three times during the president’s first term in office to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The first came during a highly touted summit in Singapore in 2018, which marked Kim’s first-ever meeting with an American president.
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The second and third meetings took place in 2019, first in Vietnam to continue nuclear talks and then again in the Demilitarized Zone during a trip Trump had taken to South Korea. That trip was the first time a sitting American president stepped foot on North Korean soil.
In recent weeks, Trump has stated that he has reopened communications with Kim in hopes of advancing the denuclearization goals of his first term.