Daily Mail: 'We're talking to them right now. They very much want to do it, we'd like to do it': Trump says June 12 with nuclear summit STILL a possibility a day after cancelling talks with Kim
* Trump wrote to Kim Jong-un to pull out of planned June 12 nuclear talks
* Hours later he allowed that the summit still could happen
* But in the same breath he warned Kim Jong-un that the U.S. military stands willing to hold him in check – and South Korea and Japan would foot the bill
* Trump wrote in his letter to Kim: You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never be used'
* VP Mike Pence told Fox News on Monday that North Korea could end up like Libya if it doesn't make a deal with Trump
* North Korea 's vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui fired back, calling Pence a 'political dummy' and 'ignorant and stupid'
* That led Trump to call off the Singapore face-to-face meeting with Kim – which he later allowed could be resurrected
* Sen. Marco Rubio chimed in, mocking Kim: 'In the words of a wise man, 'Congratulations, you just played yourself''
Donald Trump said Friday that a meeting with Kim Jong-un could be back on after North Korea recommitted to talks 'any time in any form' following the U.S. president's announcement that he was pulling out of a June 12 face-to-face with the dictator.
'We're talking to them right now. They very much want to do it. We'd like to do it. We're gonna see what happens,' he told reporters as he departed the White House for Annapolis, Maryland.
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