Kim Jong-un ‘hit’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders during summit with Donald Trump

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un “hit” one of US President Donald Trump’s top officials during his diplomatic summit in Singapore in 2018.

This important information has been brought to light by former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was the unfortunate target of Kim’s longings for love.

Sanders has written a book about the time he spent working for Trump and, unlike the billions of other revealing memoirs from his presidency, it is actually a compliment.

The book includes a funny, if a little disturbing, anecdote from the Singapore summit, where Trump tried and failed to reach a concrete denuclearization deal with Kim.

During the meeting of the two leaders, Sanders looked up from the notes she was taking and noticed that Kim was “looking at her.”

“We made direct eye contact and Kim nodded and seemed to wink at me,” he writes, according to reports from The Guardian and The New York Times.

“I was stunned. I quickly looked down and kept taking notes.

“All I could think of was, ‘What just happened? Surely Kim Jong-un didn’t just mark me.’

Sanders told Trump about the incident when they were returning to the airport later. It was very funny.

“Kim Jong-un hit you!” said the president.

“He did! He hit you!”

Sanders told her boss that was not what she meant, but then White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who was also in the car, backed him up.

“Well Sarah, that fixes it. You’re going to North Korea and take one for the team!” Trump joked.

“Your husband and children will miss you, but you will be a hero to the country!”

The two men “howled with laughter.”

Sanders is from a fairly famous family. His father, Mike Huckabee, is a pastor and former governor of Arkansas who ran for president several times, albeit without success.

Political experts hope Huckabee’s daughter will follow in his footsteps and run for governor.

His book comes out on September 8.

Kim, meanwhile, has been the subject of mounting speculation recently.

Last month, rumors spread that the North Korean dictator was in a coma. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported that Kim had delegated some authority to her sister, Kim Yo-jong, due to “high levels of stress.”

Then photos of Kim started popping up all over the place, making assumptions about her health and a possible power transition to bed.

But now, in an ominous sign, Kim Yo-jong has also disappeared from public view. She has not been seen since July 27.

North Korea’s ruling family has a dismal record of dispatching top officials who grow too big for their boots. Even when they are direct relatives of the leader.

In 2017, for example, Kim’s brother, Kim Jong-nam, was killed at the Kuala Lumpur airport.

A few years earlier, Kim Jong-il’s son-in-law, Jang Song-thaek, suddenly disappeared amid reports that he had become the de facto leader of the country.

They had executed him. In 2013, the government issued a statement calling Jang “worse than a dog” and accusing him of trying to steal “the supreme power”.

Kim’s relationship with Trump has been something of a roller coaster since the US president came to power in 2017.

Trump was initially aggressive toward North Korea, labeling Kim a “little rocket man” and threatening to destroy him.

Later, the couple developed something of a bromance. Trump boasted of the “beautiful letters” that Kim sent him and spoke optimistically about the prospect of a denuclearization deal.

“He wrote me beautiful letters, and they are fantastic letters. We fell in love,” said the famous president at a rally with his followers in 2018.

“We are doing very well with North Korea,” he said.

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

At the Singapore summit, Trump showered Kim with compliments.

“He is very talented,” he told reporters.

“Anyone who takes over a situation like he did at 26 and is able to handle it and handle it roughly. I’m not saying it was nice, he handled it. Very few people that age can take one.” out of 10,000 probably couldn’t. “

He called his meeting with Kim “very productive.” The two signed a document committing them to a “lasting and stable peace” on the Korean peninsula, and saying that North Korea “will work towards complete denuclearization.”

But that deal hasn’t led to any practical progress, and Trump has since soured with Kim. The two leaders have again threatened each other with sullen statements.