• Vice President Kamala Harris mixed up North and South Korea 
• She touted the alliance the U.S. has with 'the Republican North Korea' during her visit to the DMZ during a four-day swing through Asia
• The embarrassing gaffe came on the heels of Joe Biden asking a crowd to identify a decease congresswoman the day prior 
• It also comes as North Korea launched yet another missile on Thursday amid concerns the communist country could conduct a nuclear test

Kamala Harris continued an embarrassing week for the White House by mistakenly touting the U.S. alliance with 'the Republic of North Korea' – just one day after President Joe Biden called out for a dead congresswoman at an event on ending hunger.

The vice president concluded her trip through Asia with a visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Thursday, where she made the gaffe confusing the communist North Korea with U.S. ally nation of South Korea.

'The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,' Harris said during a speech at the DMZ Thursday, intending to refer to the Republic of Korea, the official name of South Korea.

'It is an alliance that is strong and enduring,' she continued, not appearing to recognize her mistake.

A communications advisor for Texas Senator Ted Cruz called Harris a 'flat out moron' for her remarks. 

'I cannot state enough that the commitment of the United States to the defence of the Republic of Korea is iron-clad, and that we will do everything in our power to ensure that it has meaning in every way that the words suggest,' Harris added in her remarks. 

'In the South, we see a thriving democracy,' she added. 'In the North, we see a brutal dictatorship.'

Her remarks professing U.S. support for South Korea's defence came as North Korea launched yet another missile on Thursday in the face of the vice president's trip to Asia.

The mix-up between the North and South Korean nations came on the heels of a disastrous clean-up by the White House to try and explain away Biden forgetting that Representative Jackie Walorski died in a car crash last month.