Joe Biden compares 'thug' Kim Jong-un to Hitler and slams Trump for calling the North Korean ruler his 'good buddy' - but the President insists it's important to 'have a good relationship'
Joe Biden compared Kim Jong-un to Adolf Hitler on Thursday as the former vice president slammed President Trump for 'legitimizing' the North Korean ruler by meeting with him.
In the second and final presidential debate, the Democratic nominee blasted Trump for his diplomacy with Pyongyang, though the Republican countered that he had achieved what the Obama administration could not.
'They tried to meet with him, he wouldn't do it,' Trump said of Kim and the Obama administration.
'He didn't like Obama, he didn't like him, he wouldn't do it. OK? They tried.
Former Vice President Joe Biden (left) blasted President Trump (right) on Thursday for forging close personal ties with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un
The president has met with the North Korean ruler three times - most recently in June of last year at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea
Biden compared Kim to Hitler and called the North Korean leader a 'thug' while slamming Trump for being his 'good buddy'
'He wouldn't do it. You know what? North Korea, we're not in a war, we have a good relationship.'
Biden responded that 'we had a good relationship with Hitler before he, in fact, invaded the rest of Europe.'
The former vice president added: 'Come on. The reason he would not meet with President Obama is because President Obama said we're going to talk about denuclearization.
'We're not going to legitimize you. We're going to continue to push stronger and stronger sanctions on you.
'That's why he wouldn't meet with us.'
Trump is the first sitting president to hold a summit with the leader of North Korea.
The president has met with Kim three times. The first summit took place in Singapore in 2018. The next year, the two leaders met in Hanoi.
Kim and Trump also shook hands at the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea at Panmunjom in June of last year.
Kim Jong-un waves during a parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on October 10
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