President Trump offered some unsolicited praise for Kim Jong Un at the G-7 summit in France on Monday — saying the North Korean dictator and his country have “tremendous potential” given its strategic location.

“Kim Jong Un, who I’ve gotten to know extremely well — the first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un and I think she would agree with me — he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential,” the president said as an aside after being asked about a revived nuclear weapons deal with Iran.

Kim, who just yesterday supervised the testing of a super-large multiple rocket launcher, has a great location, Trump said, as it shares borders with China, Russia and South Korea.

“You’re in between China, Russia and South Korea. People want to get to South Korea, they’ve got to get there somehow. And if they’re going to do anything other than essentially fly, they want to go through. So railroad and everything else, so many things want to happen there,” the president said during a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron to wrap up the three-day meeting of world leaders.

“I think that North Korea has tremendous economic potential and I think that Kim Jong Un sees that he would be the leader and I think he sees the tremendous potential that it’s got.”

The president has repeatedly praised Kim, despite the North’s recent spate of missile tests and a lack of progress on talks about its nuclear program, which the administration wants dismantled.

Earlier this month, he told reporters that he had received a “very beautiful letter” from Kim.

In September 2018, Trump told a crowd at a MAGA rally in West Virginia that Kim “wrote me beautiful letters and they’re great letters. We fell in love.”