Do you remember the scene in a Monty Python movie in which a guy loses a sword fight having his legs and arms completely chopped off?   He yells at the attacker who has beaten him badly, "come back and fight you coward."   Of course the guy doesn't come back and fight because there's no point.   The guy is making a threat he cannot possibly back up.   That's what the UN just did with respect to North Korea.   They passed a resolution which condemns the acts of a rogue state and put no muscle, no valid threat behind it.   It was a horse designed by committee.   They left the mouth of the condemnation toothless because China and Russia wanted it that way.   With every act the UN makes which contains no real force, the thing becomes weaker and weaker.   We are watching the death of an institution which has barely made it to the half century mark.   IMHO, the UN will be defunct before it reaches the age of 100.