Wendy Sherman, now the No. 3 official in the State Department, who served as counselor to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and accompanied her to North Korea, said in 2008: “He was smart, engaged, knowledgeable, self-confident, sort of the master-director of all he surveyed.”
It's like killing, starving, and brutalizing tens of millions of people doesn't count if he can mingle in a dinner party.
Note to State Department: Kim Jong-Il is dead. You can stop sucking up to him any time, now.
UPDATE: Of bloody course he did.