Fisticuffs now officially more likely to save innocent life than appealing to the U.N. Sure, we can complain that the United Nations has become a farce, but hey, we all elected for 'em, right? So you've heard that there are lives to be saved, and international conventions that would save them, if only some effective international body was capable of enforcing those conventions. Enter a group of members of the South Korean National Assembly, who flew to Geneva to make an appeal to the U.N. Human Rights Council to save about 30 North Korean refugees -- or freedmen , if you prefer -- from being repatriated by China to a North Korean gulag. This particular group may or may not have already been sent back to North Korea, but thousands more will assuredly follow. Or try to. When the appeal to the UNHRC having been about as effective as you'd have guessed, said parliamentarians engaged in some role-reversal by staging a fist-fight with the North Koreans present. Which I do not endorse. Officially. South Korean lawmakers have scuffled with North Korean delegates in Switzerland at a U.N. meeting on the North's alleged human rights abuses. About three or four South Korean lawmakers tried to grab a North Korean diplomat leaving the meeting in Geneva as they chanted slogans against China's policy of repatriating North Korean defectors, footage from Yonhap news agency shot Monday showed. The lawmakers were pushed away by security and North Korean delegates. U.N. spokeswoman Corinne Momal-Vanian confirmed