North Korea pulls out Trump card, calls him ‘wise politician’

Seoul

A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today , one of the dynastic state’s mouthpieces, described Trump as a “wise politician” and the right choice for US voters in the Nov. 8 US 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 had earlier said he was prepared to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, and that China should also help solve the problem.

North Korea, known officially as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea DPRK, is under UN sanctions over its past nuclear tests. 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.

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. Its frequently strident rhetoric often threatens nuclear strikes against South Korea and the US.