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A column carried
on Tuesday by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic
state's mouthpieces, described Trump as a "wise politician" and
the right choice for U.S. voters in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential
election.
It described his most likely Democratic opponent, Hillary
Clinton, as "thick-headed Hillary" over her proposal to apply
the Iran model of wide sanctions to resolve the nuclear weapons
issue on the Korean peninsula.
Trump instead has told Reuters he was prepared to talk to North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear
program, and that China should also help solve the problem.
North Korea, known officially as the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK), is under U.N. sanctions over its past
nuclear tests. South Korea and the United States say its calls
for dialogue are meaningless until it takes steps to end its
nuclear ambitions.
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.
DPRK Today is among a handful of news sites run by the isolated
North, although its content is not always handled by the main
state-run media.
It said promising to resolve issues on the Korean peninsula
through "negotiations and not war" was the best option for
America, which it said is "living every minute and second on
pins and needles in fear of a nuclear strike" by North Korea.
The North has for years called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops
from the South as the first step toward peace on the Korean
peninsula and demanded Washington sign a peace treaty to replace
the truce that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
Its frequently strident rhetoric also often threatens nuclear
strikes against South Korea and the United States.
(Editing by Tony Munroe and Paul Tait)
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