Overly generous. You might be good at holding onto power and convincing your long-suffering people that they really have never had it better.<p>So he's good at holding other peaceful countries like Japan and South Korea to ransom because they don't want to get into a fight. So far, so dictator, but I don't really accept the hypothesis that this means he wasn't crazy.<p>Something I read in another report which I thought was hiliarious:
"Official accounts attributed his demise to mental and physical exhaustion while riding on a train" - imagine how much exhaustion the Koreans pushing the train felt.<p>The guy was a nutcase, if measured on any normal scale. He was willing to let his people starve in order to live like a medieval king. If he's so well educated and read, then he knew what he was doing.