U.S. President Donald Trump has fallen in love — with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

That's according to the president, who praised Kim for what Trump said were steps toward denuclearization during a televised wide-ranging speech at a rally Saturday in Virginia.

"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. They were great letters. And then we fell in love," Trump said of his talks with Kim over his nuclear weapons program.