Lawless Will Stay

No link, because I’m passing along informed gossip from after-dinner conversation (no names, and no, this was NOT from  a certain  off-the-record event).  Indeed, his portfolio there will reportedly be enhanced to add Afghanistan and Pakistan to his area of interest.

If this is in fact the case, it suggests that USFK restructuring will proceed as previously planned.

The other informed gossip is split:  on the question of whether we are at the cusp of some kind of graceful-exit deal with the North Koreans.  While it does appear that there was some kind of “progress” at Berlin, there is disagreement about whether it will amount to anything.  My fear is that this administration is so desperate to have a deal it can wave at the Democrats that it will sign someting the North Koreans will already be violating before the next president is inaugurating.