Via the North Korean Monitor comes news that Condoleeza Rice may have found herself a chance to toast Kim Jong-il:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is expected to attend a concert by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang on Feb. 26, according to Radio Free Asia Tuesday. The orchestra won an agreement from the North to play the U.S. anthem at the Pyongyang concert.

RFA said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could use that moment to visit North Korea to seek a breakthrough in deadlocked six-nation nuclear talks, attending the concert along with the North Korean leader. 

The U.S. top diplomat is scheduled to attend the inauguration ceremony of South Korean president-elect Lee Myung-bak on Feb. 25 before flying to Japan and China. But a change in the itinerary is possible, the broadcaster predicted. Rice will be accompanied by the U.S. top envoy to the six-party talks Christopher Hill. [Chosun Ilbo]

Her attending this concert, despite alleged North Korean nuclear proliferation to Syria, the diverted humanitarian aid to the military, the UNDP scandal, and the failure to live up to their end of the nuclear agreement, would really make the Bush administrations sell out of the North Korean people complete.  How did an administration that created the North Korean Human Rights Act come to the point they are begging for their own Madeline Albright moment?  

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