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- Democratic candidate Joe Biden denounced President Donald Trump for befriending North Korea’s “bully” leader.
- Biden compared Kim Jong Un’s diplomacy to working with Hitler.
- Biden indicated that he was also willing to meet with Kim, saying his condition would be for Pyongyang to work to make the Korean peninsula “a nuclear-weapon-free zone.”
Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Thursday denounced President Donald Trump for befriending North Korea’s “bully” leader, likening his diplomacy to working with Hitler.
In a fierce clash in his final presidential debate, Biden attacked Trump’s insistence that he has avoided war through his summits with Kim Jong Un.
“He has talked about his good friend, who is a bully,” Biden said of the young North Korean leader.
“It’s like saying we had a good relationship with Hitler before he invaded Europe, the rest of Europe. Come on.”
But Biden indicated that he was also willing to meet with Kim, saying his condition would be for Pyongyang to work to make the Korean peninsula “a nuclear-weapon-free zone.”
Trump said former President Barack Obama had left him “a mess” in North Korea and warned him of the risk of “nuclear war.”
After the summits, “we have a very good relationship. And there is no war,” said Trump, who also played down the recent presentation of a new long-range missile by North Korea at a military parade.
“He didn’t like Obama,” Trump said of Kim not meeting with the former president. “He didn’t like him. He wouldn’t.”
Biden, who was Obama’s vice president, responded that Obama would not meet with Kim because he was imposing stronger sanctions.
“President Obama said that we are going to talk about denuclearization. We are not going to legitimize it.”
Trump first met in June 2018 with Kim in Singapore, the first summit between the countries that are still technically at war, and later said the two leaders “fell in love.”
The two leaders have met twice more, and North Korea has since postponed nuclear and missile tests, but analysts say Pyongyang has continued to advance its weapons programs.
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