At Korean DMZ, Kamala Harris Highlights ‘Very Important’ U.S. Alliance with . . . North Korea

The Biden administration has often been accused of mistaking the United States’ friends for her foes. Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris unwittingly vindicated those detractors.

On Thursday, while visiting the demilitarized zone bisecting the Korean Peninsula, Harris confused our steadfast ally to the south of the 38th parallel with our totalitarian foe to the north of the line.

“The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,” Harris said, not only naming the wrong country but failing to get its official name right. As a parting gift, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea carried out another banned missile test, firing two short-range projectiles into the Sea of Japan just hours after she left.

Kamala’s Korea conundrum is just the latest in the series of rhetorical blunders. Earlier this year, the bumbling VP was ridiculed for her word- salad take on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Harris’s gaffes on the world stage are starting to become a liability. As her slip-ups mount, one has to wonder why we keep sending the maladroit veep overseas only to bugger up American foreign policy. Maybe her portfolio ought to be slimmed down? Her knack for working together is probably best put to use stateside.