Number Two?

Kim Jong Il won’t be happy about being second-worst to anyone. It’s not a terribly good neighborhood, overall:

The magazine ranked Chinese President Hu Jintao sixth. “Although some Chinese have taken advantage of economic liberalization to become rich, up to 150 million Chinese live on US$1 a day or less in this nation with no minimum wage. Between 250,000 and 300,000 political dissidents are held in “˜reeducation-through-labor’ camps without trial,” the magazine said. “The government opens and censors mail and monitors phone calls, faxes, e-mails and text messages.

And the winner is . . . .