The United States has dropped a push for the United Nations Security Council to hold its fifth annual meeting on human rights abuses in North Korea this month as it does not have enough support, diplomats said Friday.
At least nine countries on the 15-member body need to back a request for the meeting, which Pyongyang ally China has unsuccessfully tried to block for the past four years. But diplomats said only eight members supported calling the meeting this time around.
"It's all about the numbers," a diplomat said, suggesting that the minimum threshold of nine backers needed to proceed with a discussion in the chamber had not been met.