January 19, 2008 (LPAC) -- Jay Lefkowitz, the raving neocon who founded the New Citizen Project (which spawned the notorious PNAC) with Bill Kristol and Gary Schmitt, is now the "special envoy" to North Korea on Human Rights, and a regular pain in the side of U.S. envoy to the Six-Party Talks Chris Hill. Thursday, Lefkowitz issued a diatribe against North Korea and the Six-Party process itself, at an AEI forum, ranting that North Korea would not denuclearlize during the Bush Administration, that they were not keeping their pledges, that they were "serial proliferators," and denounced China and South Korea for being "unwilling to apply significant pressure on Pyongyang."

He called for dumping the Six Party process in favor of bilateral operations (i.e., regime change), linking human rights into the mix, and for cutting off North Korean contact with international banking altogether.

Both the White House and the State Department spokesmen rejected the outburst. Sean McCormack at State said: "His comments certainly don't represent the views of the administration." Cheney has intervened multiple times to sabotage his own Administration's progress in Korea negotiations, and is not at all pleased that he has been unable thus far to derail the current successful process.