Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Trump: My love for Kim
Prez revels in his ‘beautiful letters’ from Korea despot
DONALD Trump says he “fell in love” with brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The President was talking up his push to get the nuclear regime to disarm, which led to a summit earlier this year.
He said: “I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters.”
Speaking at a rally in West Virginia, Trump repeated: “They really were great letters. We fell in love.”
The praise came hours after North Korea said it would not denuclearise fully without more US concessions.
Trump said he would be called “unpresidential” for praising Kim. Last week he told the UN General Assembly: “I would like to thank Chairman Kim for his courage and for the steps he has taken, though much remains to be done.”
The North Korean ruler runs a vile regime that kills or imprisons millions. He has not met US demands for a full weapons-programme inventory or taken requested steps to give up his arsenal.
A follow-up to the Singapore summit in June is expected after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accepted an invitation to Pyongyang to begin planning.
In the rally on Saturday, for Republican Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey, Trump also moaned about the Democrats’ treatment of his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Last week the judge was quizzed in a nine-hour hearing on sex attack claims.
Trump said: “They don’t care who they hurt, who they have to run over in order to get power and control and that’s what they want: power and control.”
A STATUE of book heroine Matilda defiantly staring down Donald Trump was unveiled near the late author Roald Dahl’s home in Great Missenden, Bucks.