SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea on Sunday dismissed as ungrounded President Donald Trump s comment that he recently received a nice note from the Norths leader, Kim Jong Un.

Trump said during a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic Saturday that I received a nice note from him recently. It was a nice note. I think were doing fine. Trump also defended now-stalled nuclear diplomacy with Kim, saying the U.S. would have been at war with North Korea if he had not been elected.

North Koreas Foreign Ministry said in a statement that there was no letter addressed to Trump recently by the supreme leadership, a reference to Kim.

It said it would examine why the U.S. leadership released the ungrounded story to the media.

The relations between the top leaders of (North Korea) and the U.S. are not an issue to be taken up just for diversion nor it should be misused for meeting selfish purposes, the statement said.