The High Art of Diplomatic Doubletalk

From a JPost story on Jimmy Carter’s current visit to North Korea:

“The outlook for the diplomatic engagement is the best it has been in two years, but the prospects for a satisfactory outcome have never looked worse,” said Douglas Paal of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

Can someone please tell me how I can get a sinecure like that? I already own quite a few dark gray suits.