U.S. President Donald Trump said there is “no road left” for the North Korea issue on Friday, but was nevertheless supportive of inter-Korean dialogue surrounding the forthcoming Winter Olympics.

“You know, we ran out of road…” he said after meeting with visiting North Korean defectors in the Oval Office. “The road really ended (and) they could’ve done it 12 years ago. They could have done it 20 years ago.”

Trump was apparently referring to what he regularly says was a lack of sufficient attention by former administrations to the North Korea issue, but didn’t explain the implication of reaching the