Pompeo heading to North Korea to prepare summit with Kim Jong-Un, says Trump

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Washington's chief diplomat Mike Pompeo is on his way to North Korea to prepare for a landmark nuclear summit.

"At this very moment, Secretary Pompeo is on his way to North Korea in preparation for my upcoming meeting with Kim Jong Un," Trump said, in a White House address.

Pompeo, who met Kim in Pyongyang last month while he was still director of the CIA, will arrive in the North in "virtually an hour," Trump said.

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In addition to planning the summit, due later this month or early in June, Pompeo has been pressing the regime to release three detained US citizens.