Former Vice President Joe Biden. The Hill/Greg Nash.
North Korea has bashed former Vice President Joe Biden in an official state media editorial in KCNA. The Hill. The article said Biden was a “snob bereft of elementary quality as human being" and was overestimating his chances of victory. The article made fun of Biden's 2020 campaign and said he was of low IQ. It is unclear what inspired the article, but it could be due to Biden's recent comments condemning President Trump for working with "dictators" like Vladmir Putin and North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un.
My Comment:
You can find the KCNA article here, if you have a translation program like Google Translate or can speak Korean.
As for the incident itself, it's more funny than anything serious. North Korea has a funny way of insulting people and in this case it's great because I am not a fan of Joe Biden. Calling him a "fool of low IQ" is pretty hilarious regardless of politics.
It seems pretty likely that North Korea wants President Trump to win. They know who Joe Biden is and with him being the VP under Barack Obama I doubt they want him back. Biden would likely abandon the peace process and could even go to war with North Korea, though that's far from certain. Though the latest peace summit didn't work out at least with President Trump they have someone that wants to work with them.
I do think that the North Koreans have a point about Biden's candidacy being a sure thing. Though he is polling fairly well a lot could change between now and the primaries. Hell, Biden's old enough that he could drop dead before then. But he has a lot of competition and as some of the candidates drop out voters may coalesce around another candidate.
Anyways, for a slow news day I thought this was a good story to cover. Not every post has to be super serious and having the North Koreans essentially trash talking Joe Biden. I found it very funny and I thought I would share it.
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