US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Washington and Pyongyang have continued to make progress on agreements made at the Singapore Summit as he wrapped up his visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Pompeo made the remark on his Twitter account shortly after arriving in the Republic of Korea (ROK), saying he has met with DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un and thanks the DPRK for hosting him and his team.
Pompeo is currently on an Asia tour that includes Japan, the DPRK, the ROK, and China, which started Saturday.
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The top US diplomat met with Kim for around two hours Sunday morning in Pyongyang, where denuclearization and a second US-DPRK summit were expected to be high on the agenda before the pair shared a lunch together.
The visit was Pompeo's fourth to the DPRK. US President Donald Trump met Kim in Singapore in June for the first-ever summit between the two countries.
Speaking to Pompeo via an interpreter following the morning's talks, Kim praised their "nice meeting".
He added: "It's a very nice day that promises a good future for both countries."
An official on Sunday's latest visit to Pyongyang with Pompeo said the trip was "better than the last time," but added, "It's going to be a long haul."
Grand bargain
Pompeo landed Sunday afternoon in the ROK, whose president Moon Jae-in has served as a go-between for the two sides.
The ROK's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has hinted of what a grand bargain between the two countries could look like.
In an interview with the Washington Post, she said the DPRK could agree to dismantle Yongbyon, its signature nuclear site.
In exchange, the US would declare a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War -- which concluded with an armistice rather than a peace treaty -- but the DPRK would stop short of delivering an exhaustive list of its nuclear facilities, she said.
After Seoul, Pompeo will be visiting Beijing on Monday.