US President Donald Trump is said to have had a bizarre friendship with North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un - spicy details have now been revealed in a disclosure book.
Before the
2020 US election
*
, more and more details about the business of
US President Donald Trump
* will become
known.
Among other things, he is said to have a special friendship with the North Korean dictator Kim Jon Un - according to the disclosure book by US journalist
Bob Woodward
.
Particularly spicy: Allegedly
Donald Trump
*
even
bragged
about inside knowledge about a murder.
Washington DC (USA) - At the beginning of his
first term *
,
US President Donald Trump
threatened North Korea with war.
But the apparent hostility of the two rulers Trump and Kim Jong Un was followed by a friendship - which probably took on bizarre features at times.
How bizarre Trump doesn't seem to be aware of, because he likes to chat openly about his relationship with North Korea's dictator.
As Trump is said to have told journalist Bob Woodward in an interview,
Kim
and
Trump
exchanged
several letters over the years.
Trump once said about it: “He sent me wonderful letters, they are great letters.
We fell in love. ”While the
election campaign in the USA
* is
entering the hot phase, excerpts from Bob Woodward's book“ Rage ”that become known in advance are the subject of heated political debates in the USA.
Kim Jong Uns' friendship with Trump is just the latest example.
US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: Intensive correspondence between those in power
Even now, Trump leaves no doubt that he thinks the North Korean dictator is big:
Kim Jong Un is in good health.
Never underestimate him!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020
It was only on Friday that he posted on
that Un was in excellent health and should never be underestimated - there are always speculations about the state of us health.
Details from the letters, which are also to be published in the
Woodwards
book
, sometimes sound strange.
Among other things, Kim Jong Un is said to have written to Trump about a meeting between the two: "Even now I cannot forget the historic moment when I held your Excellency's hand."
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: Trump boasts of knowing about the execution of Us Uncle
That the good relationship between the two apparently cannot be shaken by anything becomes clear when
Trump
brags
in an interview with
Woodward
that
Kim Jong Un
told him details about the execution of his uncle.
Experts suspect that it
must have been
Jang Song Thaek
, who was
executed in 2015
.
At that time, the Focus reported that, according to rumors, the political prisoner was not shot like other prisoners, but instead was torn to pieces by dogs.
Meanwhile
, it is not certain
whether the letters to Trump actually came from the pen of
Kim Jong Uns
.
However, they are described by the US secret service as a "masterpiece" when it comes to flattering Trump - and how one can fulfill his wish to be "at the center of history," writes Woodward.
(dpa / kat - * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network.)