Joe Biden is a 'low-IQ snob' and his self-promotion 'is enough to make a cat laugh' says North Korea's state-run news service after former VP listed Kim Jong-un among 'dictators and tyrants' in campaign speech

  • SNorth Korea mocked the former U.S. vice president in an unsigned column published by a state-run news service
  • Biden had slammed Kim Jong-un as a 'tyrant' and 'dictator' in a campaign speech
  • Pyongyang fired back: 'Frankly, we will never forgive anyone who provokes our supreme leader. But we will make them pay for doing it'
  • Column ridiculed Biden for getting handsy with women, infamously plagiarizing a political speech in 1988, and falling asleep during a 2011 Obama speech 

By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com

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North Korea's state-controlled media took a shot at former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday from 13 time zones away, calling him a 'low-IQ fool' and 'a snob who lacks the basic qualities of a human being.'

Biden, the Democratic presidential front-runner, framed the Hermit Kingdom on Saturday as a tyrannical regime that he would never afford respect.

'Are we a nation that embraces dictators and tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong-un?' he asked during his campaign launch speech. 'We don't. Trump does.'

Pyongyang reacted 72 hours later.

'It was a serious provocation when Biden had the temerity to insult the supreme leadership of our dignified nation,' the Korean Central News Agency wrote in an unsigned column.

Former VP Joe Biden blasted North Korea as a dictatorship on Saturday as he officially launched his presidential campaign with a Philadelphia speech

Despot Kim Jong-un's government fired back Tuesday via a column published by a state-run news agency, calling Biden a 'low-IQ snob' whose self-praise is 'enough to make a cat laugh'

Jill Biden (left) removed Joe's hands from her waist during an on-stage embrace at his first campaign rally in Philadelphia on Saturday; North Korea alluded on Tuesday to Biden's reputation for being handsy with females

Jill Biden (left) removed Joe's hands from her waist during an on-stage embrace at his first campaign rally in Philadelphia on Saturday; North Korea alluded on Tuesday to Biden's reputation for being handsy with females

Biden infamously fell asleep during a 2011 speech by then-President Barack Obama about the national debt, and North Korea mocked him for it more than 8 years later

Biden infamously fell asleep during a 2011 speech by then-President Barack Obama about the national debt, and North Korea mocked him for it more than 8 years later

'Frankly, we will never forgive anyone who provokes our supreme leader. But we will make them pay for doing it,' it read.

Bloomberg was first to translate portions of the trans-Pacific broadside. A Korean speaker translated other sections of it for DailyMail.com.

It's unclear whether the Pyongyang government was more upset at Biden for dismissing Kim or mangling his name: The former VP's prepared remarks, distributed to reporters, spelled it 'Kim Jung Un.'

But KCNA claimed Biden 'dared to insult our dignity in his campaign' and called him 'a snob who lacks the basic qualities of a human being.'

Kim famously called Donald Trump a 'mentally deranged U.S. dotard' in 2017 after he ridiculed him in a United Nations speech as 'Little Rocket Man.'

But on Tuesday the North Korean despot's media mouthpiece mocked the 76-year-old Biden's chance of becoming President of the United States in the first place.

There's hope! Kim met with Donald Trump twice after he called the U.S. president a 'mentally deranged U.S. dotard' for taunting him as 'Little Rocket Man' in a United Nations speech

There's hope! Kim met with Donald Trump twice after he called the U.S. president a 'mentally deranged U.S. dotard' for taunting him as 'Little Rocket Man' in a United Nations speech

'He praises himself as the most popular candidate for the presidency. That is enough to make a cat laugh,' KCNA wrote.

Biden is known for 'groaning with vulgar language and jokes ... about women,' the column continued, poking fun at the cringe-inducing political episodes that ended his first presidential campaign.

'It's already well-known that during the 1988 presidential election he passed off a British politician's speech as his own, and was forced to abandon his candidacy because he had plagiarized someone else's writing in college,' KCNA wrote.

The writers recalled a 2011 Barack Obama speech about the national debt, where Biden 'was pictured sleeping in the audience.'

'It is obvious how well he'll do in the election,' KCNA wrote: 'He doesn't know what to say, and voters are afraid of what might come out of his mouth.'

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