U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday seemed positive of the developments on the Korean Peninsula, though added that Washington would not “be played” by Pyongyang.

Trump’s comments came before a joint-press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington.

“We’re not going to be played … We’re going to hopefully make some kind of a deal, if we don’t that’s fine,” Trump said.

When answering a question on his comments during the press conference, Trump said that he felt a responsibility to help solve the decades-long impasse and said that something “dramatic” could happen in the near future.

“I think I