North Korea praises 'Fire and Fury' book for foretelling 'Trump’s political demise'

Kim Hjelmgaard | USA TODAY

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Michael Wolff's revealing book about President Trump's White House has made its way to one of the most isolated corners of the planet: Kim Jong Un's North Korea, where state media praised it Thursday for foretelling "Trump’s political demise."

The book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, has received mixed reviews, with some critics and readers claiming it is an unputdownable expose of a juvenile and dysfunctional administration, and others saying it amounts to little more than unsubstantiated political gossip.

Pyongyang, though, gave it five stars (out of five).

North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary that robust sales for the book reflected "rapidly surging anti-Trump sentiments in the international community."

The paper added that the "anti-Trump book is sweeping all over the world so Trump is being massively humiliated worldwide" and that "voices calling for the impeachment of Trump are on the rise not only in the United States but also abroad."

Since the book was published about a week ago, it "has triggered a debate on whether Trump is qualified to be president, even in Western Europe," the newspaper said.

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Fire and Fury, which takes its title from Trump's threat to unleash "fire and fury" after North Korea's missile and nuclear tests, sold 29,000 copies its first weekend after being published Friday. Digital sales topped 250,000, and audio sales exceeded 100,000, according to John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, the parent company of the book’s publisher, Henry Holt and Co. The publisher increased an initial announced printing of 150,000 to more than 1 million, according to the Associated Press.

Comments in the book has led to the resignation of Steve Bannon as executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network. Trump's former chief strategist is one of the book's major sources. Trump also promised to "take a strong look" at U.S. libel laws because of what he says is the book's inaccurate and unflattering portrayal of his administration.