Richard Lloyd Parry in the Times says North Korea's Kim Jong-il is "a scared orphan of history in a super-villain's outfit who is much more afraid of us than we are of him".
Brendan Barber, the TUC's general secretary, tells the Financial Times in an interview that workers ought to be involved in setting executive pay.
Andrew Grice in the Independent writes that Barry Sherman, the Labour chairman of the Commons education committee, says that well paid civil servants ought to feel morally obliged to send their children to state schools.
Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting asks what would happen to Labour's chances of a fourth term if Gordon Brown were to resign before the election to become "chancellor of the world".
Mark Mardell on his blog explains what happened when a group of European journalists were offered the chance to meet Barack Obama.
Hopi Sen on his blog has a go at Peter Oborne for saying that today's politicians are more greedy and careerist than their predecessors.
