WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. officials hope to get a U.N. Security Council vote on North Korea in a couple of days, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told "Fox News Sunday."
Of the process towards the resolution vote Burns said, "President Bush and Secretary Rice have been in contact with all of the major regional leaders. Our ambassador, Chris Hill, our assistant secretary of state, is in the region. He's in Japan today. He was in South Korea and China in the last two days.
"And I think the most important step today is that China has decided to send a senior-level delegation to Pyongyang this evening," added Burns. "And it's time for China to exert its influence that it does have on North Korea."
Burns said, "You're going to see over the next couple of days all these tracks proceeding forward with one intention, and that is to convince the North Koreans that they're isolated, that they have no support in the world, and they've got to come back to this six-party framework and the agreement they made with us, and that is to denuclearize."
