By SHELTON BUMGARNER
Marmot’s Hole Guest Blogger
Jay Lefkowitz has started work and when his very existence isn’t being as an excuse to not to return to six-party talks by the DPRK, he’s meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:
SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. I am about to have a meeting with Jay Lefkowitz, who is about to become the Human Rights Envoy for North Korea. The President, of course, has noted that people all over the world have a right to live in dignity, to have human rights respected, to have brighter futures. We believe the people of North Korea to be no different. And Jay will have an opportunity, because he is close to a number of us, having been our colleague on the White House staff, and also close to the President, having worked for the President in the policy arena in the White House during the last term — Jay will have an opportunity to raise the profile of these issues and to see what we can do with the rest of the world to improve the humanitarian situation for the people of North Korea and the human rights conditions there. So Jay and I will have a chance to talk for a while.
