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QUIRKY WORLD ... ‘Wise’ Trump wins praise from North Korea

North Korea: North Korea has backed presumptive US Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a propaganda website praising him as “a prescient presidential candidate” who can liberate Americans living under daily fear of nuclear attack by the North.

QUIRKY WORLD ... ‘Wise’ Trump wins praise from North Korea

Thu, 02 Jun, 2016 - 01:00

A column carried by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic state’s mouthpieces, described Trump as a “wise politician” and the right choice for US voters in the November 8 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.

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