The United Nations voted 15-0 to punish the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but the resolution is already being undermined and threatens to allow a nuclear arms race in Asia.China and Russia are giving the United States a glimpse of the opposition it will face when it deals with the Iranian nuclear problem. China may not be willing to enforce searches at ports and stops along its “porous” border with North Korea, which means that weapons parts could be illicitly snuck into the country. Not only is China a problem with regard to enforcement, it is also a problem economically. China has said that it will keep its economic and business ties with the Hermit Kingdom.China has frequently affronted the United States, even on issues where the U.S. has had a legitimate point, but the shocker from Monday’s article in The New York Times by Norimitsu Onishi was that South Korea announced that it would be keeping its economic and business ties with the North. Those ties include an industrial zone and a tourist resort in North Korea. According to Onishi’s article, those two items are “an important source of hard currency for the North.”In order for sanctions to have…