U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he believed another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is possible this year.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, the U.S. President was asked whether another summit with the DPRK leader, who he last met at Panmunjom in June, was possible “this year.”

“At some point yes,” Trump responded. “Certainly they want to meet.”

“I think it’s something that will happen and we’ll see,” he continued. “But Kim Jong Un… I think something can happen.”

The President’s increasingly open position follows the dramatic dismissal on Tuesday of White House