U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will reportedly fly over to Pyongyang next week... as the Trump administration hopes to keep the pressure on North Korea to speed up the denuclearization process.
Cha Sang-mi reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will reportedly visit North Korea next week, according to the Financial Times.
Citing four unnamed U.S. officials,... the newspaper on Thursday said Pompeo has cancelled a planned July 6th meeting with his Indian counterpart in Washington... in order to fly to Pyongyang.
The officials added that the joint declaration signed by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12th,... stipulated that Pompeo would hold "follow-on" talks with an unnamed senior North Korean official "at the earliest possible date",... but had given no timeline.
The visit will be the first senior-level meeting between the two sides since that historic summit in Singapore.
The U.S. State Department wouldn't confirm the Financial Times' report.

Pompeo traveled to North Korea twice before the Singapore summit, the most recent in May, when he returned to the U.S. with three American hostages who had been detained in the North.

The report comes after Pompeo testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, where he stated that contacts with North Korea are ongoing,... with him in charge of the communication.
Pompeo said he was sure the regime knows the scope of denuclearization the Trump administration is calling for.
He had also confirmed that no remains of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War have been handed over by the North, but said he was optimistic they will be "in the not too distant future."
Cha Sang-mi, Arirang News.