Trump 'wise' and Clinton 'dull', says North Korean state media

A North Korean state media website has published an op-ed on describing presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as 'wise' and presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as 'dull'.

A self-described Chinese North Korean scholar named Han Yong Mook, writing for DPRK Today, called Trump wise and a far-sighted presidential candidate.

"The president that US citizens must vote for is not the 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," CNN quoted his writing as saying.

The article translated by NK Today, an independent news site focused on North Korea, highlighted the New York billionaire's skepticism of American alliances in East Asia.

Trump had earlier mused about withdrawing some or all of more than 75,000 US troops currently stationed in the South Korea and the Japan.

"Japan is better if it protects itself against this maniac of North Korea," Trump told CNN in March.

"We are better off, frankly, if South Korea is going to start protecting itself they have to protect themselves or they have to pay us," he added.

The DPRK Today article said, "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."