U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he expects to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again, telling reporters at the White House he is “looking forward” to another encounter and would like it to take place this year. Trump added that Kim “would like to meet with me,” characterising their relationship as very good and expressing confidence that talks could resume at an unspecified date. The remarks came ahead of Trump’s summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, where the two leaders are set to discuss ways to revive stalled nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang. Trump argued that tensions on the Korean peninsula have eased during his tenure and reiterated his view that dialogue with Kim remains the best path to preventing conflict. Trump and Kim last met in 2019 after historic summits in Singapore and Hanoi in 2018 and early 2019. While those meetings produced limited concrete progress on denuclearisation, Trump maintains that his personal diplomacy kept relations from deteriorating. No schedule or venue has been set for a new summit, and North Korea has not publicly responded to the latest overture.