North Korea backs ‘wise politician’ Trump for President

A propaganda website described the Republican nominee as a “prescient presidential candidate” who could liberate Americans living under daily fear of nuclear attack by the North.

A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today also referred to Democrat runner Hillary Clinton as “thick-headed Hillary”.

DPRK Today, one of the state’s mouthpieces, described billionaire Trump as a “wise politician” and the right choice for US voters in the 8 November presidential election.

Its opposition to Clinton stemmed from her proposal to apply the Iran model of wide sanctions to resolve the nuclear weapons issue on the Korean peninsula.

DPRK Today also said Trump’s suggestion that the United States should pull its troops from South Korea until Seoul pays more was the way to achieve Korean unification.

“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,” said the column, written by a China-based Korean scholar identified as Han Yong Muk.