U.N. Security Council session on North Korea only highlights rifts

The U.N. Security Council held a session on the human rights situation in North Korea on Wednesday, but it only served to highlight the huge gap over the issue between the panel's influential members.The United States along with Japan and South Korea, both of which are Washington's key allies in East Asia, requested the council session to urge Pyongyang to improve people's lives rather than continue to develop technology for a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles.But Russia and China, veto-wielding council members that provide political and economic support to North Korea, challenged the m…READ FULL ARTICLE