Maybe I’m not as sophisticated and nuanced as Washington Post blogger …
Adam Taylor (or whomever wrote the headline for his post), but unlike Taylor, I can’t quite see Kim Jong Un’s “vulnerable side” through his mass murder and starvation of so many of his pitiful subjects.
Granted, there is some significance in the fact that His Porcine Majesty has sometimes fallen below the aura of infallibility that this regime has built around him, but would anyone see a dominant theme in Hitler’s vegetarianism revealing a compassionate side, or Saddam Hussein’s authorship of romance novels revealing the romantic within?
I agree with you, Kim Jong-un deserves no praise. Perhaps he might if he woke up one day and decided to take the country out of the dark ages, freed the people in the gulags and genuinely embraced the very concept of freedom for all North Koreans. But as that is unlikely to ever happen, the man deserves nothing but contempt for his despicable actions.