North Korea Makes U.S. Presidential Endorsement: You Won't Believe Who It Is!

Donald Trump can add another endorsement to his ever-growing list: the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

DPRKToday, the state-run news organization of North Korea, published an endorsement throwing the country's political weight behind the presumptive Republican nominee.

(If you're fluent in Korean, you can read the original version here. For the purposes of this article, we'll quote from NKNews.org's translation here.)

Calling Trump a “wise politician” and “far-sighted presidential candidate," the official news source of the communist dictatorship praised Trump's willingness to meet with its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un.

Han Yong Mook, a self-described Chinese North Korean scholar under whose byline the piece appeared, also commended Trump's proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea if South Korea doesn't start paying America.

“Yes do it, now," the editorial says. "Who knew that the slogan ‘Yankee Go Home’ would come true like this? The day when the ‘Yankee Go Home’ slogan becomes real would be the day of Korean Unification.”

Mook even seemed to share Trump's love of nicknames for political rivals.

“The president that U.S. citizens must vote for is not that dull Hillary – who claimed to adapt the Iranian model to resolve nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula – but Trump, who spoke of holding direct conversation with North Korea," the article says.

The best quote of the article was this: "He’s the Dennis Rodman of American politics — quirky, flamboyant, risk-taking."

• Read more from NKNews here.

Unlike another controversial Trump endorsement — from KKK leader David Duke back in February — it's going to be hard for Trump to feign ignorance and say he needs to do more research on just what North Korea exactly is.

Besides, Trump was singing Kim's praises back in January.

"You’ve got to give him credit," Trump said of Kim. "How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?”

No word yet on who “highly respected” leader Vladimir Putin will endorse for this race.

Images: Donald Trump via Gage Skidmore, Flickr; Kim Jong Un via user Niquetamereceluiquimabanni, Wikimedia Commons; Both used under Creative Commons