Trump 'has kept in touch' with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after they shared a series of 'love letters' during his time in the White House, new book claims

 Former President Donald Trump couldn't quit his bromance with Kim Jong-un after leaving office,  and has told people he has kept in touch with the North Korean dictator, according to a new book. 

Trump famously exchanged 'love letters' with Kim, and famously said at a West Virginia rally that 'We fell in love.'

According to The Confidence Man, a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump has told associates he kept in contact with Kim after leaving the White House. 

'As we know, he had a fixation on this relationship,' Haberman told CNN in an interview Thursday.

Trump said he exchanged 'love letters' with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. He has told people they have maintained contact, according to a new book

She spoke after Axios first reported the excerpt, along with a claim in the book that White House staff would periodically find wet clumps of printed paper in the toilet of the White House residence while Trump was in office, and that Trump was believed to be the culprit. 

Trump called that report 'fake news' in a statement Thursday.

The report of continued contact between Trump and Kim comes amid a series of revelations about what was contained in 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration obtained from Mar-a-Lago.

The New York Times reported that among the things Trump handed over were copies of the 'love letters' he exchanged with Kim while in office. 

Trump held two summits with Kim, including one at the DMZ

North Korea has continued its missile testing program. This picture taken on January 27, 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 28 shows what North Korea says is a surface-to-surface tactical guided missile

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times said she doesn't know whether the contact actually occurred 

the beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched with great interest and hope to relive the honor of that day,' Kim wrote Trump after their Singapore summit in 2018.    

But two meetings with the North Korean leader aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula failed to stem the country's missile testing and harsh rhetoric.

Trump's claims could not be verified and may not be true, Haberman said.

'What he says and what's actually happening are not always in concert, but he has been telling people that he has maintained some kind of a correspondence or discussion with Kim Jong Un,' she said.

The claim is included in the forthcoming book, The Confidence Man

DailyMail.com has asked the White House Trump has informed the administration of any actual contacts with the North Korean leader. 

Kim is the only foreign leader Trump has said he remains in contact with, she added. 

An exchange with Kim would be unusual for a former president, given Pyongyang's escalating missile tests. North Korea boasted on Tuesday that it is one of only a handful of countries in the world to field nuclear weapons and advanced missiles and the only one standing up to the United States by 'shaking the world' with missile tests.

A representative for Trump did not immediately return a request for comment. 

Trump issued a statement Thursday denying the claim that documents were flushed down the White House residence toilet, following additional reports that Archives officials identified classified information in the material that was returned.

'The papers were given easily and without conflict and on a very friendly basis, which is different from the accounts being drawn up by the Fake News Media. In fact, it was viewed as routine and "no big deal,"' Trump said.