Last week, after meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, U.S. President Donald Trump told ABC News reporter George Stephanopoulos his thoughts on the DPRK in an interview. Trump said, “His country does love him (Kim Jong Un). His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor.” Trump added, “They’re gonna put it together, and I think they’re going to end up with a very strong country, and a country which has people — that they’re so hard-working, so industrious.”

Trump privately praised North Korea’s state-run television and later said on the television show Fox and Friends that Kim Jong Un “speaks and his people sit up in attention. I want my people to do the same.”