North Korea’s most widely read newspaper the Rodong Sinmun declared Minjoo Party presidential candidate Moon Jae-in the “candidate with high chances to win” the upcoming South Korean Presidential election on May 9 in an editorial today.

Moon’s name appeared in Rodong earlier this year in passing, but this is the first time the former chief presidential secretary been mentioned as a potential future president of South Korea – something not covered by North Korean media when he ran against Park Geun-hye in 2012.

“Through its media, the U.S. have described Minjoo Party’s candidate Moon Jae-in, the candidate with high chances