Updated. North Korea Resolution Passed

*Updates below the fold.*
The UN Security Council unanimously passed sanctions against North Korea today. Thanks to China and Russia, the resolution unfortunately, has very little bite.

From the AP:

The resolution demands North Korea eliminate all its nuclear weapons but expressly rules out military action against the country - a demand by the Russians and Chinese. The Americans also eliminated a complete ban on the sale of conventional weapons; instead, the resolution limits the embargo to major hardware such as tanks, warships, combat aircraft and missiles.

So, if North Korea finds a way to survive these sanctions (China) what is to discourage them from advancing their nuclear weapons and delivery programs?

And why did the ban on conventional weapons get tossed out of the resolution?
Maybe this has something to do with it:

The 225 daily trucks cross into Korea from China, making up 70 percent of the North's imports. And the traffic is increasing. North Korea's trade has risen 20 percent a year, to $1.2 billion, and it doubled in the last quarter of 2004...

Neither China nor South Korea see it in their national interest to allow North Korea to collapse at this point...(2005)

Perhaps they do now since they are nuclear, but for the Chinese to suddenly end potentially billions in trade is well, unlikely. Don't expect these watered-down resolutions to bring about anything other than more of the same.

*Update* Some insight on what we may expect from this resolution:

Some experts, though, doubt the U.N. measure — designed to punish the North for allegedly testing a nuclear device — will force Kim to go on a diet. They say the North's shadowy network of trading companies around the world will find ways to skirt the ban and deliver sushi and shark fin to Kim, whose paunch stands out as much as his frizzy bouffant hairdo.

"The North changes the names of the companies all the time. It's almost impossible to keep track of them," said Bertil Lintner, author of "Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan."

Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya questioned how the ban would be defined, saying on Friday: "I don't know what luxury goods means, because luxury goods can mean many things for different people ... if they don't have it." (via Allahpundit)

So the banned goods are relative now. That is, if we can keep track of whatever those goods are.