Acclaimed journalist Bob Woodward is releasing a new audiobook featuring his interviews with former President Donald Trump. He recently released an excerpt from that audiobook which revealed that the former president shared classified letters from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un with him.

Woodward stated that Trump acknowledged that they were classified and sensitive material that he should not share with anybody. However, Trump still showed them to Woodward, telling the journalist, "Don't say I gave them to you" during their 2019 interview.

CNN obtained the audio of the conversation, which showed Trump telling Woodward that nobody else had those letters and told the journalist to "treat them with respect."

Woodward dictated the contents of the letters into a tape recorder, though he noted that there were no markings that suggested they were classified. However, when he asked Trump to see them, Trump admitted that "Oh, those are so top secret."

National Archives Trying To Recover Kim Jong Un Letters as Part of the Top Secret Documents Case vs Donald Trump

The original top-secret letters that Kim Jong Un sent to Trump were among the many documents that the former president took to his Florida home in Mar-a-Lago after leaving office. Now, National Archives has been trying to recover them.

According to the New York Times, Donald Trump resisted returning boxes of documents he had taken from the White House and told several advisers that they were his.

The new recordings released by Woodward appeared to contradict Trump's claims that the documents he took from the White House were not sensitive, and if they were, he also asserted that he had declassified all the documents he took because he had the power to declassify them just by thinking about it.

READ NEXT: Supreme Court Rejects Donald Trump's Plea to Step in on Mar-a-Lago Documents Case

Donald Trump Also Told Maggie Haberman He Has the Kim Jong Un Letters

After leaving office, former President Donald Trump also sat down for an interview with New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. In her book, "Confidence Man," Haberman revealed that he has the letters from the North Korean dictator. However, Trump then backtracked and said they were with the archives.

The New York Times then pointed out that the letters were not returned to the government for another four months when the National Archives went to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve 15 boxes of documents he took from the White House.

Trump had been fixated on his relationship with Kim and even showed off that he has the letters from the North Korean supreme leader as president. He often brandished it in front of reporters, as well as other visitors to the White House.

In his interviews with Woodward, Trump also admitted he would taunt Kim with warnings about the United States' own nuclear arsenals. "I said: 'My button's bigger than yours, and my button works. Yours doesn't,'" he told Woodward.

According to Forbes, the correspondence between the two world leaders become known as "love letters" because they contained flattering statements addressed to each other.

READ MORE: Donald Trump Admits Taking North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Un Letters to Mar-a-Lago When He Left the White House: New Book

This article is owned by Latin Post.

Written by: Rick Martin

WATCH: Trump showed classified Kim Jong Un letter to journalist - CNN