South Korea’s president has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the South’s top diplomat said Friday.

Trump “welcomed” the request from President Lee Jae-myung “and he expressed his willingness to be engaged with North Korea again,” Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met three times as North Korea was building a nuclear weapons stockpile, which he views as key to the country’s security and his continued rule of the northeast Asian country.

There were two summits in Singapore in June 2018, and in Vietnam in February 2019, where Trump and Kim disagreed about U.S.-led sanctions against the North.

A third meeting that year at the border between the two Koreas failed to salvage their nuclear talks -- and Kim has since shunned any diplomacy with the U.S. and South Korea.

“It would be fantastic if they met with each other in the near future,” Cho said. “And President Lee Jae-myung made it clear to president Trump that he will not be sitting in the driver’s seat.”

Since Trump returned to power in January he has repeatedly expressed hope of restarting talks with Kim.

The North Korean leader said Monday he still has “good memories” of Trump but urged the U.S. to drop its demand that the North surrender its nuclear arms as a precondition for resuming long-stalled diplomacy.

Trump is expected to visit South Korea next month to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which has prompted media speculation that he might meet Kim again at the border.