As we enjoy today's installment of "Where's Paulie W?" we have to pause to wonder: Does this mean we're bombing Korea next?

Al Kamen is back from vacation, and already in today's Washington Post is reporting a sighting of the man we love to hate, "Paulie Wolfshit" Wolfowitz.

Where's Wolfowitz?

Keeping up with . . . former Pentagon No. 2 and former World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who's now at the American Enterprise Institute. Last seen Friday in Seoul chatting with incoming president Lee Myung-bak of the conservative Grand National Party.

Wolfowitz was part of an informal Asia-hands delegation put together by former representative Steve Solarz, now senior counselor at consulting firm APCO Worldwide, and Cal Berkeley professor emeritus Robert Scalapino as the new Korean government takes shape. Others in the meeting included former defense secretary William Perry, now at Stanford, former nuke negotiator Robert Gallucci, now at Georgetown, former ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith and Alexander Vershbow, the ambassador to Korea.

That's actually a fairly not-all-that-embarrassing assemblage. (Steve Solarz once represented Howie's and my old Brooklyn CD, and was a pretty decent congressman.) Still, it's always useful rule to watch where Paulie W. treads--and stand clear.


DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE CONTEST

Al also reminds us that tonight is the deadline for his "What Was in That Office, Anyway?"
contest:

Last Call for High Honors

Don't forget! The deadline is midnight tonight for the In the Loop contest to guess what the intended target was in that still-suspicious fire last month in Vice President Cheney's office in the Old Executive Office Building.

Send your entries to hitthevault@washpost.com. Top 10 winners, in addition to bragging rights and a mention in the column, also get a coveted, official In the Loop T-shirt. Hill and administration folks can enter on background. You must include a daytime or cellphone number. Good luck.

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