I agree about the absent countries, looking at that list I get the strong impression that the "absent" nations were actually just abstaining in a subtler way. Turkey, Albania and a number of Oceanian countries in particular - those are countries that would be expected to follow the lead of the EU in the former two cases and the US in the latter, but don't want to take a position that could be seen as pro-homosexuality, and so they made sure they weren't there, so that the offense to Europe/the US would be smaller than if they had actually abstained.

The countries that did abstain are in similar positions, but evidently less afraid to annoy their allies. Seems to me that the large majority of both the abstainers and the absent countries would've voted with the majority if they had been forced to vote, so perhaps it's for the best they abstained instead and made it look as if it was close.

I'm sure there are people in North Korea who think the US is evil for opposing North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. Of course, North Koreans don't generally have internet, so I'm unsure where you would've encountered any such people. Seriously though, the future is not some new Cold War between China and the US, there will be more than two sides, and people criticizing the US does not mean they want Chinese hegemony. Chill out already.

Oh, and I hereby absolve you of any obligation you may feel to reply, at least to this paragraph (the bit above about the abstaining might be a productive discussion, but I rather doubt this bit would be ).