US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to North Korea on July 5 to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday.
Pompeo and Kim are meeting for the second time, with the aim of continuing the debate on denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.
It is recalled that US President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and signed an agreement outlining a commitment to denuclearize North Korea and establish a lasting "peace regime" in the region.
Trump, after meeting with Kim, assured via twitter that North Korea "is no longer a nuclear threat."
On July 7, Pompeo will leave for Tokyo to discuss North Korean denuclearization and "other bilateral and regional issues" with leaders from Japan and South Korea. He will then fly to Hanoi, Vietnam, to discuss denuclearization with Vietnamese leaders.
Pompeo will also visit Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Brussels and Belgium to accompany Trump to the NATO summit July 11-12.