UN General Assembly
1950

139. If the Council’s resolutions of 25 and 27 June had been vetoed, what would the situation in Korea be today? There could have been no intervention in the name of the United Nations against this brutal and unjustified aggression by North Korea, and South Korea would have been completely subjected to the rule of the invaders. Or else there would have been intervention of all kinds, but at the risk of charges of a violation, if not of the spirit, at least of the letter of the Charter. The energetic and liberating action of the Security Council in this case was made possible only by the fact that the nation which might have vetoed those decisions, was at the time absent from the Security Council through its own choice.