It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

US AND THE UN GANG UP ON NORTH KOREA:

President Bush's top national security advisers decided today to back an effort by the International Atomic Energy Agency to have the Security Council declare that North Korea is violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and other agreements to keep nuclear weapons out of the Korean peninsula, senior administration officials said today.

In turning to the Security Council, which may seek to impose penalties, administration officials acknowledged that they were trying to counter North Korea's effort to increase pressure on the West. They were also trying to cast the issue as North Korea's international defiance, rather than a confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington.

However, given this:

But several administration officials insisted today that the United States is not considering military action against North Korea, saying that the risks of a counterattack on South Korea and perhaps Japan would simply be too great.

it doesn't seem likely that effectively toothless UN reprimands will mean anything.