Welcome to the Hen House

[Update:   The  Daily NK has more on the working groups.]

Those “working groups,” to which most of the  difficult unresolved issues with North Korea have been delegated, are scheduled to meet next month, and get a load of who is chairing them:

South Korea will chair a working group on providing economic and energy incentives for North Korea, while China will be responsible for a group on the North’s denuclearization. Russia will head a group concerned with peace and security in Northeast Asia.  [Yonhap]

North Korea, the U.S. and Japan will lead the two other groups on normalizing bilateral relations.

Maybe we can invite Iran to lead a committee on nonproliferation.   This comes amid widespread reports that the White House has pretty much forced Treasury to  give Kim Jong Il back his millions in criminal proceeds.  I’m at a loss to say how Jimmy Carter could have made a worse deal than this.