At two separate White House events Monday — including during a meeting with South Korea's new president, Lee Jae Myung, President Donald Trump repeatedly praised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying he knows him “better than anybody” and hopes to meet with him “this year.”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said: “I have very good relationships with Kim Jong Un" and North Korea.

He even suggested that he had a better relationship with Kim than almost anyone but Kim’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong.

“A lot of people would say, ‘That’s terrible.’ No it’s good,” Trump added, recalling meeting with North Korea’s leader during his first term.

“In fact, some day, I’ll see him,” Trump said of a possible second-term meeting with Kim. “I look forward to seeing him.”

Asked whether he would consider returning to the Demilitarized Zone that separates the Koreas, Trump responded by fondly recalling the last time he did so in 2019.

“Remember when I walked across the line and everyone went crazy?” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon.

He recalled that everyone went crazy, “especially Secret Service.”

But “I loved it,” Trump said. He added that he felt safe because he had a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator.

Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on North Korean soil in June 2019 during an unannounced trip to the DMZ.