U.N. Security Council Needs Major Housecleaning: Five Permanent Seats Should Be Turned Into Rotating Seats

The United Nations Security Council is cracking again, and it's because of the veto-holding members who hold the permanent seats.

Three permanent members of the council plus the majority of the non-permanent member states want sanctions against North Korea for their reckless firing of ICBMs and Scud-type missiles, but Russia and China don't. And because they don't, the motion auto-fails.

Here we go again with the Security Council quivering under stress.

They really need to look at permanently abolishing the permanent seats on the Security Council and replacing them with rotating seats so that they match the rest of the council. A two thirds majority should be able to pass motions pertaining to things like North Korean aggression and dealing with issues like Darfur or Rwanda.

The Russians and Chinese refusing to budge on North Korea is simply another indication that the Security Council needs to be revamped.