US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Pyongyang in October to prepare a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the Department of State said in a communique on Wednesday. Pompeo met on Wednesday at the United National General Assembly with his North Korean counterpart, Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, to discuss the upcoming summit, Efe reported.

At that meeting, Pompeo "accepted Chairman Kim's invitation to travel to Pyongyang next month," said the State Department. During his visit to North Korea, Pompeo will "make further progress on the implementation of the commitments from the US-North KoreaSingapore summit, including the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea," the statement read, referring to North Korea by its initials standing for Democratic People's Republic of Korea.