From ‘love’ to ‘thug’: Biden win to change US-North Korea dynamic

Headline-grabbing summits between the leaders of North Korea and the United States will be off the agenda for some time, analysts say, after US president-elect Joe Biden characterised Kim Jong Un a “thug”, in contrast to Donald Trump’s declarations of love. Trump’s bizarre diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang veered from mutual insults and threats of war to “love letters” and the first ever meeting between a sitting US president and a North…