North Korea Lashes Out At Former US Vice President Biden, Calls Him 'Reckless' - Reports

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd May, 2019) The Korean Central news Agency (KCNA), which portrays the position of the Pyongyang administration, has lashed out at former US Vice President Joe Biden, saying that he has become "reckless" and "senseless."

"Former U.S. Vice-President Biden has gone reckless and senseless, seized by ambition for power. The presidential candidate from the Democratic Party during his recent election campaigning reeled off rhetoric slandering the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician," the statement said.

Biden, who has recently emerged as a leading candidate for the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voiced his hard stance on North Korea.

On Saturday, Biden was speaking at a campaign launch in Philadelphia and asked if the United States is a nation that "embraces dictators and tyrants... like [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un.