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How Trump and Kim of North Korea ‘fell in love’

‘Beautiful’ letters have replaced tough talk

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President Donald Trump told a cheering crowd at a campaign rally that there was once tough talk “back and forth” between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “and then we fell in love.”

Trump said at the Saturday night rally in West Virginia: “He wrote me beautiful letters and they’re great letters. We fell in love.”

He joked about criticism he would get from the news media for making a comment some would consider “unpresiden­tial” and for being so positive about the North Korean leader.

“Why has President Trump given up so much?” Trump said in his mock “news anchor” voice.

“I didn’t give up anything.” He noted that Kim is interested in a second meeting after their initial meeting in Singapore in June was hailed by Trump as a big step towards denucleari­sation of North Korea.

“We were going to war with North Korea. Millions of people would have been killed. Now we have this great relationsh­ip.”

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