Kim Jong-un and Benjamin Netanyahu
The leftishness or rightishness of world leaders can be measured by who their international defenders and supporters are.
[insert dictator of Muslim country here] is obviously left-wing, because his international defenders and supporters are entirely left-wing.
Kim Jong-un is the furthest left because his defenders and supporters can only be found amongst the TNF types (and the South Korean center-left, which wins the world's most-insane-center-left prize for that reason).
Netanyahu is the furthest right because he is the world leader most despised by the left, and (outside America) is supported and defended only by the extreme right.
Calling Kim far-left is ridiculous. Not that North Korea can be placed on a left-right scale, but his regime (
in practice) is extremely conservative, in the sense it wants the no change in North Korean status quo (one of extreme inequality and not an insignificant amount of capitalism). People who openly
admire North Korea are more damaged than anything else. As for the left in South Korea, I'd say their view of North Korea is (in some, not all cases) more nuanced than "Kim is good," and is certainly more valuable in terms of effecting change for the majority of North Koreans than just saying North Korea is bad and leaving it at that.
