“Vice President Kamala Harris mistakenly touted the U.S. ‘alliance with the Republic of North Korea’ in remarks Thursday,” reports USA Today:
“The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,” Harris said …. after touring the DMZ. “It is an alliance that is strong and enduring.”
Harris’ gaffe came one day after President Joe Biden made a slip-up as well when he asked in a speech whether late Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., was in attendance. Walorski died in a car wreck in August.
Thousands of Americans died fighting North Korea in the 1950s, and the U.S. is still technically at war with North Korea. As Reuters notes, “The war ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, meaning U.S.-led U.N. forces are still technically at war with North Korea.”
As the Washington Examiner notes, “The gaffe was the latest in a string of blunders from the vice president during her time in office, providing fodder for her Republican critics and operatives.” It lists some of her other “reported gaffes and blunders to date. Harris frequently says meaningless things such as, “When we talk about the children of the community, they are a children of the community.” Harris also cackled hysterically over parents struggling to send their kids to school, and slighted veterans in a Memorial Day gaffe.
President Biden periodically slips up and refers to Kamala Harris as “President Harris.”
