The Worst Man

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/98729/the-worst-man?utm_source=The+New+Republic&utm_campaign=adc2e4a6a0-TNR_Daily_122011&utm_medium=email



Still, even if we cannot completely grasp what life is like for ordinary North Koreans, we can at least be honest with ourselves about one thing: Kim Jong Il may have been an eccentric, but he was not, first and foremost, an eccentric. He was, first and foremost, the cruelest man of our time. And that is how we should remember him.