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Article snippet: Secretary of State MORE and the country's leader Kim Jong Un, the State Department said Tuesday. "The Secretary has arrived in DPRK at the invitation of the North Korean leadership," Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the department, said. "He is traveling to prepare for the historic meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. We have no further announcements." Pompeo's trip to North Korea – his second in roughly a month – came as a relative surprise. Trump revealed that the top diplomat was en route to Pyongyang as he wrapped up his announcement on Tuesday that he would pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. "He will be there very shortly," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We have our meetings set. The location is picked. The time and date – everything is picked, and we look forward to having a very great success." Pompeo's latest trip to North Korea came as the U.S. prepares for a historic meeting between Trump and Kim – the first ever encounter between a sitting U.S. president and North Korean leader. Speaking to reporters aboard a government airplane bound for North Korea on Tuesday, Pompeo said the trip was intended to "put in place a framework for a successful summit" between Trump and Kim. Pompeo, who was confirmed as secretary of State last month, met Kim in Pyongyang over Easter Weekend, while he was still CIA director. That trip – which he said Tuesday was meant to determine the seriousness of the North's offer to talk – was revealed only af... Link to the full article to read more