Tokyo: Donald Trump appears to be finding some friends in North Korea. He has been getting good press this week in the North’s carefully controlled media, first in an opinion piece that praised him as “wise” and full of foresight and then in the official mouthpiece of the ruling Worker’s Party itself.
Both articles noted how his suggestions that he would be willing to meet leader Kim Jong Un and wants to rethink and possibly withdraw US troops from South Korea have created a “Trump Shock” in Seoul.
The state-run DPRK Today in Pyongyang started off the Trump praise by juxtaposing the “wise” Trump with what it called “dull Hillary” – describing leading Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton by only her first name.
“The presidential candidate who US citizens should vote for is not dull Hillary, who says she would pursue an ‘Iran-type model’ to solve the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear problems, but Trump, who said he would solve problems by directly talking with North Korea,” said the column attributed to a “China-based scholar.”
