The state news agency also said that if Biden thinks he is the most popular presidential candidate, it's 'enough to make a cat laugh.'
Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden interacts with a supporter during a campaign stop at the Community Oven restaurant in Hampton, N.H., on May 13. By Siobhán O'Grady Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow May 22 at 10:02 AM Over the weekend, former vice president Joe Biden asked a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally whether the United States is a nation that embraces “dictators and tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong Un.
That, um, didn’t go over so well in Pyongyang, where North Korea’s state-run news agency responded this week by calling Biden “a fool of low IQ.” "What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician,” the news agency said, according to the AP.In 2017, after Trump said Washington would “totally destroy North Korea” if it had to, Kim responded by calling him a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”As The Washington Post broke down for readers at the time, Oxford defines the term “dotard” as “an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.
Biden, who is leading in early polling, has “gone reckless and senseless, seized by ambition for power,” the article published by the news agency said. If he thinks he is the most popular candidate, the news agency said, then that’s “enough to make a cat laugh.”But even if North Korea is content to fling barbs now, it could relent later.
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