Joseph R. Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign responded to North Korea’s criticism Wednesday, saying it’s “no surprise” that the regime would prefer President Trump over the former vice president.

Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency published a commentary piece earlier Wednesday blasting Mr. Biden as a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after the former vice president called Kim Jong-un a “thug” during a recent campaign speech.

Andrew Bates, Mr. Biden’s campaign spokesman, said North Korea favors President Trump because he’s a pushover to the “murderous regime.”

“As Vice President Biden said in Philadelphia, Donald Trump ‘embraces dictators and tyrants like Putin and Kim Jong-un’ while alienating our closest allies. That is antithetical to who we are and it has to change,” Mr. Bates told ABC News in a statement.

A federal judge on Wednesday said Deutsche Bank and Capital One may hand over the president’s financial records to Democrats in the House.
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