The U.N. Security Council agreed Friday on the text of a resolution that would impose financial and weapons sanctions against North Korea, although China still has reservations on one key point, and a vote was scheduled for Saturday. Japanese U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, the current council president, and U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, who introduced the resolution, announced the Saturday vote after a brief closed council meeting Friday to discuss the latest draft resolution. “The council has agreed, basically, … that we will vote tomorrow,” Bolton told reporters. “There may be some additional changes to the text,” he said, “but we do have unanimous agreement.” Bolton said the Security Council's agreement just five days after North Korea's announcement it had detonated a nuclear device was “a sign of the determination of the council, in the face of this threat, to move quickly.”
