"We fell in love:" Trump gets up on Kim North Korea's letters

WHEELING, WVa. (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump brought his enthusiasm for relaxation with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to new heights on Saturday, declaring at a rally with his supporters that "we fell in love" after have exchanged letters.

Trump and Kim said they wanted to work on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, holding an unprecedented meeting earlier this year in Singapore to discuss the idea.

Before turning the page after decades of public acrimony, leaders routinely exchanged threats and insults as North Korea pushed for the development of a nuclear missile capable of striking the United States.

"I was really tough – and he too. And we were coming and going, "said Trump at a rally in West Virginia.

"And then we fell in love, okay? No, really – he wrote me beautiful letters, and they are good letters, "he said.

His followers laughed and applauded. Trump grumbled that commentators would call him "non-presidential" for describing Kim so glowingly.

The Trump administration is preparing for a second summit with Kim to talk about denuclearization. The time and place have not been announced yet.

Despite the warmer tone of the relationship, North Korea has not responded to the US request to provide a comprehensive inventory of its weapons programs and to take irreversible steps to abandon its arsenal.

Three senior US officials involved in North Korean politics said this week that no progress has been made in serious negotiations to eliminate or even halt nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons programs. ballistic missiles of Kim.

So far, all three have declared, on condition of anonymity, that the North has not even agreed to define basic terms such as "denuclearization", "verifiable" and "irreversible". ". Most of the measures she took could easily be replaced or reversed.