Intel reports

CIA spook says Kim Jong Un isn’t crazy

President Trump called him a “madman” — but a top CIA spook said Wednesday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was a “very rational actor” who didn’t want a war with the US despite his bellicose rhetoric.

“The last person who wants conflict on the [Korean Peninsula] is Kim Jong Un,” said Yong Suk Lee, deputy assistant director of the CIA’s Korea Mission Center — a special agency outfit that deals with the increased nuclear and ballistic missile threat from Pyongyang.

Lee’s comments came at the CIA Ethos & Profession of Intelligence conference in Washington, an annual event, the Washington Times reported.

Kim, 35, “wants what all authoritarian rulers want … to rule for a very long time and die peacefully in his own bed,” Lee said.

“We have a tendency in this country and everywhere else to kind of underestimate the conservatism that runs in these authoritarian regimes, and it’s probably the greatest circuit breaker in any kind of conflict,” he said.

All “bluster and rhetoric aside,” Kim has “no interest in going toe to toe” with the US military and its allies.