US presidential candidate Donald Trump. PHOTO: REUTERS
An editorial published in DPRK Today said Trump could get the Korean Peninsula united and also favour talks with the dictator Kim Jong Un.
“In my opinion, there are many positive aspects to the Trump’s ‘inflammatory policies’,” read the analysis of Han Yong Mook, who is said to be a Chinese North Korean scholar.
“Trump said ‘he will not get involved in the war between the South and the North,’ isn’t this fortunate from North Koreans’ perspective?”
The Republican candidate had said the United States should stop supporting South Korea and let it obtain nuclear bombs such that it could deter North Korea on its own.
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His argument was: If South Korea and Japan have nuclear weapons, it will reduce US pressure to act accordingly if North Korea did anything untoward.
“There’ll be a point at which we’re just not going to be able to do it anymore. Now, does that mean nuclear? It could mean nuclear,” said Trump.
His address was welcomed in North Korea.
“Yes do it, now … Who knew that the slogan ‘Yankee Go Home’ would come true like this?” read the North Korean paper editorial. "The day when the ‘Yankee Go Home’ slogan becomes real would be the day of Korean Unification.”
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Not only that the piece also called Hillary Clinton dull and criticised her for “adapting the Iranian model to resolve nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula”.
It is pertinent to note Pyongyang has lately been trying to resume talks with South Korea and the United States.
The article originally appeared in The Independent
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