Albright: Kim Jong Il Is "Not A Nut"

May 11th, 2006 5:47 PM

On today's Your World with Neil Cavuto, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke out on behalf of North Korean despot Kim Jong Il, saying he was "rational" and "not a nut."

You can view the video here.

Transcript:

CAVUTO: You don't negotiate with someone who's crazy, right? I mean, you would never have accepted a letter from Slobodan Milosevic, right? Neither would Bill Clinton, right? I mean, crazy is crazy is crazy...

ALBRIGHT: We talked with slobodan milosevic and I went to see Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, because I thought it was worth talking to them to see...

CAVUTO: But you acknowledged in the latter case that you were dealing with a nut?

ALBRIGHT: I actually said he wasn't a nut. I said that he was rational, he was...what he is, is isolated. He's not a nut. But he has only cash crop...

CAVUTO: You made a reference to his pornography collection...

ALBRIGHT: Well I did say that...

Call me crazy, but something tells he that the starved, oppressed, and brutalized people of North Korea might disagree.