A state-run North Korean newspaper has endorsed Donald Trump’s White House bid, calling him a “prescient presidential candidate” and claiming his policy proposals contain a number of “positive aspects.”
“The president that U.S. citizens must vote for is not that dull Hillary [Clinton] but Trump, who spoke of holding direct conversation with North Korea,” read an editorial published Tuesday in DPRK Today.
In an interview with Reuters last month, Trump suggested he would be willing to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to discuss the state’s burgeoning nuclear program and the increased tension on the Korean Peninsula.
“It turns out that Trump is not the rough-talking, screwy, ignorant candidate they say he is, but is actually a wise politician and a prescient presidential candidate,” Korean scholar Han Yong Muk wrote in the editorial.
The column went on to describe the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a “wise politician” and “far-sighted candidate,” compared to his Democratic opponent, who it dubbed “thick-headed Hillary.”
Trump also received praise in the editorial for proposing that the U.S. reduce its military presence in South Korea, despite simultaneously suggesting he would be open to the country developing its own nuclear weapons arsenal — a proposal described as “totally absurd and illogical” by a North Korean official in mid-April.
DPRK Today’s endorsement on Tuesday came shortly after the country attempted to another ballistic missile launch off its East Coast.
