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Donald Trump: North Korea Endorses Billionaire For President, Urges Rejection Of Clinton

By Patricia Ramirez

From the archive: published Jun 2, 2016, 10 years ago. Details may have changed since.

Donald Trump just got an unlikely presidential endorsement from the state-run media of North Korea. According to reports, DPRK Today published an editorial roundly praising the former reality TV star, calling him “wise” and a “far-sighted candidate.” In the editorial, North Korea’s official media voice even said that a future meeting with a hypothetical “President Trump” would be welcomed by dictator Kim Jong-un.

As The Guardian reports, North Korea loves Donald Trump’s stance that, as president, he wouldn’t support getting involved in the war between that isolated, reclusive nation and its neighbor to the South.

“Trump said he will not get involved in the war between the South and the North, isn’t this fortunate from North Korea’s perspective?”

While the editorial didn’t come directly from Pyongyang, analysts agree that, if it was published by the state-run media, it reflected the thinking of North Korea’s leadership.

Aidan Foster-Carter, from the University of Leeds, says that the North Korean media piece is an ominous sign of things to come if Donald Trump inexplicably manages to achieve his goal of obtaining the U.S. presidency.

“For the rest of us, this is a timely reminder – if it were needed – of just how completely Trump plans to tear up established US policy in the region.”

Back in March, The Donald said during a speech that if South Korea doesn’t increase defense spending out of its own pockets, he would take U.S. military support out of Seoul (should he be elected president).

The North Korean editorial took the opportunity to tell South Korea that it shouldn’t bother to increase military spending; that way U.S. troops will make a hasty exit in the event of a Donald Trump Presidency. North Korea’s state-run media touted the support the regime would get in its “Yankee Go Home” campaign if Donald Trump is elected.

“Yes do it, now … Who knew that the slogan ‘Yankee Go Home’ would come true like this? The day when the ‘Yankee Go Home’ slogan becomes real would be the day of Korean Unification.”

While North Korea seems to have a soft spot for Donald Trump, the nation doesn’t have the same tender feelings for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The editorial even called Hillary “dull.”

“The president that US citizens must vote for is not that dull Hillary – who claimed to adapt the Iranian model to resolve nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula – but Trump, who spoke of holding direct conversation with North Korea.”

Not surprising, social media reactions to the North Korea/Donald Trump love affair are mixed and largely split along political lines.

North Korea’s pro-Donald Trump editorial was published at a time when North Korea has been increasingly calling for talks with both Washington and Seoul. The North Korean government published a statement on May 17 indicating that the secretive regime wants to improve relations with its southern neighbor and directly told the South Korean government that Pyongyang is willing to resume peace talks with the south.

South Korea has brushed aside the North’s requests, stating that it has no interest in negotiating with or otherwise getting diplomatic with North Korea’s government.

In addition to publicly declaring hero-worship of Donald Trump, North Korea made the news lately following a reported failed missile test. As CNN reports, North Korea attempted to launch a missile on Tuesday. According to sources in South Korea, that missile launch was an apparent failure, but the South Korean government remained on high alert.

“Our military has maintained readiness as (we are) bracing for possibilities of additional provocations.”

Tuesday’s attempted missile launch was only the most recent in a rash of such military tests that North Korea has carried out in 2016. Officials believe that the failed missile was an intermediate-range Musudan missile. If so, it would be the fourth time North Korea has tried and failed to launch the same weapon.

On Tuesday, as North Korea was trying and failing (yet again) to complete a successful missile launch, Donald Trump was slowly recovering from the #ChickenTrump debacle on Twitter. The hashtag trend followed the billionaire’s “chickening out” of a debate with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

What do you think about North Korea’s support for The Donald? Is it just bluster, or could a President Donald Trump mean that North Korea may become a U.S. ally?

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