US President Donald Trump says the United States is "talking to" North Korea after he canceled a planned summit with leader Kim Jong Un.
 
He told reporters Friday that "everybody plays games."
 
Asked about the summit, Trump said Friday: "We'll see what happens, it could even be the 12th," referring to the June 12 date originally set.
 
Trump, who spoke to reporters at the White House before heading to the Naval Academy graduation ceremony, stressed that both sides would like the summit to happen.
 
He said: "They very much want to do it, we'd like to do it."
 
Trump withdrew from the summit Thursday, but has left open the possibility that the two leaders could still meet.
 
The former chief negotiator in denuclearization talks with North Korea meanwhile says he's skeptical that a summit will happen soon.
 
Ambassador Christopher Hill, former ambassador to South Korea, was the chief negotiator during the 2005 six-party talks in which six nations struck a denuclearization deal with North Korea that later fizzled.
 
Hill says the basic problem is lack of preparation and that these negotiations are more difficult for Trump than "things that he's been involved in before."
 
The US-North Korea summit was set for June 12 in Singapore, but Trump abruptly canceled it on Thursday.
 
The North Korean government on Friday said it is still "willing to give the US time and opportunities "to reconsider talks” at any time, at any format."
 
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary meanwhile said: "Certainly we'd like to have a meeting but the president is not just looking to have a meeting.

He's not looking for just a cheap political stunt, he wants to get something that's a long lasting and actual real solutions and if they're ready to do that then the United States, as we've said before.”