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...This is not just one magazine's judgment. China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan calls Kim "quick-witted." Outgoing South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 2000 summit with Kim Jong Il, praises him as a "man of insight." And the Dear Leader impressed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "very decisive and practical and serious...
...With his widely reported virtuoso skills on the Internet and his supposedly intimate knowledge of everything from South Korean politics to French wine, Kim Jong Il sounds like a brilliant villain straight out of a James Bond flick?and a nightmare opponent for the U.S. and its allies. There's just one thing wrong with all this buzz about Kim Jong Il's devilish cunning: it's belied by elementary and obvious fact. These days, he's merely using the playbook of his father, Kim Il Sung, from the previous nuclear confrontation in the early 1990s...
...decision maker, the Dear Leader's record is, quite literally, disastrous. At home he is the architect of a catastrophic famine that has killed hundreds of thousands?maybe millions?of his subjects since 1995. On the international chessboard, Kim's performance has been scarcely more awe inspiring. Indeed, in the current nuclear drama, many of Pyongyang's moves are careless or clueless miscalculations...
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...Ever since the Kelly fiasco, the North Korean regime has been trying to scramble out of the hole the Dear Leader dug for it. North Korea's nuclear crisis-management team has reverted almost robotically to the playbook that Kim Jong ll's father developed in the 1993-1994 nuclear confrontation: the pullout from the Nuclear Non-Prolifer-ation Treaty, the "sea of fire" threats, the demand for "nonaggression" assurances and the attempted end run around Washington's North Korea policy via a prominent former American official. We've seen this all before, folks...