Or at least their president did, on a recent article on their website.
As you all know, the Council on Foreign Relations is a mysterious entity best known for being the bane of the R0n P4v1 internet legions. Mind you, the folks down the road from me (yes, I'm in Auburn, Alabama and they're about the only thing within walking distance aside from the rest of the university campus; oy, vey) at the Ludwig von Mises Institute probably dislike them just as much.
If edscan wasn't currently (on warning hiatus/banned/whatever), I'm sure he could do a far better job of explaining the "truth" about the Council on Foreign Relations than I ever could.
But for an all-powerful mysterious organization, they do some funny things. Like reposting on their supposedly "serious" website an article their president emeritus, Leslie Gelb wrote for The Daily Beast.
The funny below the fold, with the OMG UPDATE
It comes about halfway through the, until that point, mostly serious article
The subject is, unsurprisingly, the Democratic Republic of Korea (a.k.a. "North" Korea; I'm spelling it the way the Party for Socialism and Liberation would want me to), which, as you probably heard, had a nuclear test
About halfway through the article, Gelb explains that despite bluster, neither side is really going to do anything.
Thus, putting aside the blue smoke rhetoric of American politics, here's the underlying strategic reality understood by virtually every American military expert who is not on meds: First, the United States can't attack the North because of the South. And second, the North isn't going to attack anybody because it would swiftly and irrevocably be blown into kingdom come. That would mean no more porn flicks for the notoriously addicted Kim Jong Il, the "Dear Leader" of the North.
So don't worry. The scariest Taepodong won't be one flying through the air targeted at San Francisco or Los Angeles. It will continue to be the one between Jong Il's legs.
UPDATE OMG nuclear war!!!!
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's military says it considers South Korea's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction tantamount to a declaration of war against the North.
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The statement, carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency, said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South's participation.