<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of <i>ABC News</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-korean-newspaper-endorses-wise-donald-trump-dull/story?id=39500755">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-korean-newspaper-endorses-wise-donald-trump-dull/story?id=39500755</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Proxima-Nova, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 35px; font-size: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">North Korean Newspaper Endorses 'Wise' Donald Trump Over 'Dull' Hillary Clinton</h1><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Presumptive Republican presidential nominee <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/donald-trump.htm" id="ramplink_Donald Trump_" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">Donald Trump</a>has received his latest endorsement from an unlikely source: North Korea.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Official state-run North Korean newspaper DPRK Today ran an editorial today praising Trump as a “wise politician” and “far-sighted candidate.”</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The president that U.S. citizens must vote for is not that dull Hillary but Trump, who spoke of holding direct conversation with North Korea,” the editorial said.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The article, <a href="https://www.nknews.org/2016/05/north-korean-editorial-supports-donald-trump/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">first reported by the website nknews.org</a>, went on to praise the April foreign policy speech Trump gave in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/district-of-columbia.htm" id="ramplink_Washington, D.C_" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">Washington, D.C</a>., where he threatened to withdraw U.S. forces from South Korea if the government didn’t pay the United States for defense.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Who knew that the slogan ‘Yankee Go Home’ would come true like this?” the editorial quipped.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump earned high praise in December from Russian President <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/vladimir-putin.htm" id="ramplink_Vladimir Putin_" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">Vladimir Putin</a>, who called <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/republican-party.htm" id="ramplink_the GOP_" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">the GOP</a> front-runner “talented” and “very colorful.”</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="t_callout" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-president-vladimir-putin-praises-donald-trump-talented/story?id=35816611" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Russian President Vladimir Putin Praises Donald Trump as 'Talented' and 'Very Colorful'</font></a></div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="t_callout" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-hell-fine-russian-president-vladimir-putin/story?id=35872623" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Donald Trump Says He’ll 'Get Along Fine' With Russian President Vladimir Putin</font></a></div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Putin had said he believed Trump wanted to “move to a more solid, deeper level of relations” between the United States and Russia.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“How can Russia not welcome that? We welcome that,” Putin told ABC News in December.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump responded, saying he believed he would “get along fine” with Putin if elected.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The North Korean endorsement comes on the same day South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported another North Korean mobile-launched missile had failed.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Citing the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, Yonhap said the missile was launched from North Korea’s east coast early this morning, but was unsuccessful.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It adds to a string of mobile-launched missile failures this year by the North Korean government, which is aiming for a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the West Coast of the United States.</span></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></body></html>