Next Trump, Kim Summit More Likely To Happen After October - Pompeo

The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un is more likely to happen after October, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 26th September, 2018) The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un is more likely to happen after October, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview on Wednesday.

"I don't know when the summit will take place. It may happen in October, but more likely sometime after that,"� Pompeo told CBS news.�"It takes a little while to put these things together and we want to makes sure we've got the conditions just right so the two leaders can be successful.

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Pompeo added that while no date or location for the meeting has been set, he expects to travel to Pyongyang soon to begin working on the summit preparations.

In June, Trump and Kim held a summit in Singapore during which the North Korean leader expressed a commitment to abandon the country's nuclear weapons program, while the United States pledged to provide security guarantees and freeze joint military exercises with South Korea.