North Korea Attempts to Channel Abraham Lincoln in Open Letter to Obama

North Korea Attempts to Channel Abraham Lincoln in Open Letter to Obama
In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File
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Abraham Lincoln died almost 150 years ago, but North Korea’s propaganda department decided to bring the 16th president back to life by ‘channeling’ him in an open letter, chastising the Obama administration’s policy regarding North Korean’s leader Kim Jong Un, describing it as “obsolete and useless.”

“Hi there, Obama. I understand how perplexed you must feel nowadays, but I think this is the time for you to gather your thoughts as a president of a nation,” the North Korean version of Honest Abe wrote in the state publication “North Korea Today,”according to translations reported in the Washington Post and English-language North Korean watchdog NK News.

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