Not sure either endorsement helps, but they are interesting:

On Sunday, bloggers at One Free Korea noted that a North Korean mouthpiece, Chosun Sinbo, reported that dictator Kim Jong Il was adding his name to the list of those who support the Democratic standard-bearer.

"We will see a better relationship between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula with Obama, who sternly criticizes Bush and who would meet the leader of Chosun without preconditions," Sinbo said.

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The BBC tracked down Tran Trong Duyet, a communist who held McCain and other U.S. servicemen in the notoriously inhuman conditions. There, American servicemen were starved, tortured, beaten, kept in solitary confinement and forced into communist propaganda stunts, all in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

"McCain is my friend," the former jailer told the BBC. "If I was American, I would vote for him."

Tran cited McCain's forthright character, which even an enemy could respect. "He is a very frank man — very conservative, and very loyal to his country and the American ideal," he said.