However from the point of view of the United States, Havel was a hero who will be missed. Havel was a playwright and leader of the Velvet Revolution that took Czechoslovakia out of the Communist orbit with essentially no bloodshed.
Kim was the bizarre, nepotistic dictator of a failed state. As bad as he's been, his son and assumed successor Kim Jong-un may yet prove to be worse, or could conceivably be an improvement.
