Insecurity Council

Arms trade 'hurting development', BBC, 22 June, 2004

The largest arms-trading nations globally are the US, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China, according to Oxfam.

Which are exactly the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council.

It's not so much the foxes guarding the hen house as a practical measure. If one of these countries really wanted to subvert a UN action, they could provide arms to the other side.

It was only the boycott of the UN by the USSR that allowed a security council vote to protect South Korea in 1950. (The People's Republic of China was not recognized at that time.)

-HJC