Despite winning key concessions, Russia and China raised new objections that could delay a vote Saturday on a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing punishing sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the changes sought by Moscow and Beijing were essentially technical in nature and a vote may still be possible Saturday.
And the point of this exercise is? Judging from their past history, even a successful UN resolution against North Korea, like most UN resolutions before now, will be useless, and will accomplish nothing.
So everyone at the UN is arguing on a successful way to accomplish nothing.
