Leaked to OFK: Lugar Will Go to Pyongyang

Or intends to, anyway (the road to Pyongyang is paved with unrealized intentions).  Maybe when he’s there he can clarify Kim Jong Il’s intention not to disarm, or he can help  the State Department boys write Kim Jong Il’s nuclear declaration for  him (which should make it easy to disavow).

Sen. Lugar, one the the Senate’s most liberal Republicans, is memorable for his failure to get John Bolton’s confirmation through the committee he formerly chaired.  Lugar is advised by staffer Keith Luse, a major advocate of dovish views toward Kim Jong Il’s regime  who recently — amid an ongoing  crackdown on trading by starving North Koreans — returned from North Korea reporting that he had spotted dubious signs of that vanishing mirage known as “economic reform.“