That's what I was thinking. How can a country keep a problem from EVEN BEING DISCUSSED? If a country can do that, why have we allowed all the Israeli resolutions that we've vetoed even come to the table? This sh*t just doesn't make sense. The damn UN does abso-frickin'-lutely nada for us. Nothing!!
I still say all this is just a mad-ass scramble to try and embarrass GW. This has nothing to do with Iraq or North Korea. The wussies of the world are trying to decide who the NEXT U.S. President is. They don't want four more years of GW. They want another Clinton-clone they can run all over.
They don't really have a plan, but they'll settle for the status quo as default. North Korea has no easy solution, and the Chinese know it, so they'd just as soon have us pay them off to keep them quiet indefinitely. It's not a good plan, but a great way to pass the buck.
The Chinese line appears to be: Let North Korea ruin someone else's legacy. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?