Four more years: Why North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is hoping for a Donald Trump re-election

North Korea’s leader and South Korean conservatives form an unlikely alliance in hoping for a second term for the US president, reports Donald Kirk in Seoul

The US president meets with his North Korean counterpart at their summit in Singapore in June 2018 (AFP/Getty)

President Donald Trump would defeat Joe Biden, the former vice president, by a landslide if North Korea’s Kim Jong-un had any say in the US presidential election.

The fact that Biden leads in the polls two days before the final voting, however, means all sides have to think about going back to square one in talks on North Korea’s massive programme for building nuclear warheads and the missiles to send them to distant targets, including the US.

Biden, having called Kim “a thug” in his final campaign debate with Trump, undoubtedly infuriated Kim still more by promising to “stand with South Korea” in a strongly worded statement to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency before the campaign’s final climactic weekend.