Over the course of two days Madeleine Albright spent 12 hours with Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-un. “I found that we were about the same height, in part because we wore the same size heels,” she later wrote. In her meetings with the Dear Leader she often paused to give him a chance to interject. Instead of interrupting he urged her to complete her thoughts — “something that almost never happened with my male colleagues back in Washington”. Despite his immaculate manners, the talks failed.

Source: The Times April 20, 2018 23:01 UTC