Trump declares his ‘love’ for Kim

– US President Donald Trump took his enthusiasm for North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to new heights on Saturday, declaring at a rally, “we fell in love”.

Trump and Kim said they want to work toward denuclearising the Korean peninsula, but before they turned the page on decades of public acrimony, the leaders regularly traded threats and insults as North Korea pushed to

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develop a nuclear missile capable of hitting the US.

“I was really being tough – and so was he,” Trump told a rally in West Virginia. “And then we fell in love, okay? No, really – he wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters.”

Despite the warmer relationship, North Korea has not complied with US demands to provide a complete inventory of its weapons programmes or take irreversible steps to give up its arsenal.

Three senior US officials said no progress has been made in moving toward serious negotiations.

So far, all three said, the North has not even agreed to define basic terms.

Most of the steps it has said it has taken could easily be replaced or reversed. – Reuters