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		</div><p>Donald Trump has been getting good press this week &#8211; in North Korea.</p>
<p>The North&#8217;s carefully controlled media issued an opinion piece that praised him as &#8220;wise&#8221; and full of foresight, followed by more glowing words from the official mouthpiece of the ruling Workers&#8217; Party.</p>
<p>Both articles said his suggestions that he would be willing to meet leader Kim Jong Un and possibly withdraw US troops from South Korea have created a &#8220;Trump Shock&#8221; in Seoul.</p>
<p>The state-run DPRK Today in Pyongyang started off the praise by comparing the &#8220;wise&#8221; Mr Trump with &#8220;dull&#8221; Hillary &#8211; describing the leading Democratic presidential candidate only by her first name.</p>
<p>In the lengthy column, the presumptive US Republican presidential nominee is described as a &#8220;wise politician and presidential candidate with foresight&#8221; for his comments about the US potentially withdrawing its troops from South Korea if Seoul does not bear the costs.</p>
<p>It also noted his public willingness to talk directly with the North Korean leadership if he becomes president.</p>
<p>Ms Clinton, the column said, is &#8220;dull&#8221; for promising to pursue an &#8220;Iran-type model&#8221; to solve nuclear issues with the North.</p>
<p>Mr Trump told the New York Times in March that South Korea and Japan should pay much more for the US troops based in their countries &#8211; about 28,000 in South Korea and 50,000 in Japan.</p>
<p>In a more recent interview with the Reuters news agency, Mr Trump said he was willing to meet Kim.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The removal of US troops from the Korean peninsula and direct talks with a US president dovetail nicely with objectives Pyongyang has held for years &#8211; though for different reasons than the American real estate magnate.</p>
<p>The North wants the US troops to leave because it sees them as a direct threat to the regime&#8217;s security and has long wanted talks with Washington, ostensibly towards a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, which would boost its international status and acknowledge that North Korea is a nuclear state.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are many &#8216;positive aspects&#8217; to take away from Trump&#8217;s &#8216;inflammatory campaign promises&#8217;,&#8221; the writer says in the DPRK Today column, pointing out Mr Trump&#8217;s indications that Seoul should pay &#8220;100%&#8221; of the cost for the American troops stationed in the South and, if not, Washington should pull them out.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, go away, now!&#8221; it says. &#8220;Who knew that the &#8216;Yankee Go Home&#8217; slogan we shouted so enthusiastically could come true so easily like this? The day that the &#8216;Yankee Go Home&#8217; slogan becomes reality would be the day of unification.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Korean War that solidified the division of North and South ended in an armistice, not a full peace treaty.</p>
<p>The DPRK Today website is considered to be a propaganda outlet aimed at readers outside the North, though its position within the government is not clear.</p>
<p>While not as colourful or overtly supportive as the DPRK Today column, the ruling party&#8217;s official Rodong Sinmun editorial said the emergence of Mr Trump is causing anxiety in South Korea because of his comments about potential US troop withdrawal.</p>
<p>It said the South Korean government should stop living as a servant of foreign forces and come back to the side of the Korean nation, but did not comment directly on Mr Trump as a candidate.</p>
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