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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un will meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on April 27 (local time).
The officials spoke about Pompeo's trip on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The Post reported that Pompeo went as Trump's envoy to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim about North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump dropped hints about top level talks between the U.S. and North Korea during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The CIA and White House have declined to comment on Pompeo's trip, with White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders stating that: "The administration does not comment on the CIA director's travel".
There are also reports that a secret meeting was held between North Korea and Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo.
"As one of the plans, we are looking at a possibility of shifting the Korean peninsula's armistice to a peace regime", a high-ranking South Korean presidential official told reporters.
Experts generally agreed that such a declaration would go a long way to reducing tensions and could set in motion a serious drive toward a peace treaty.
Mr Im said South Korean security officials may visit North Korea to finalise details ahead for the first summit since 2007.
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Prime Minister Modi particularly highlighted the importance India attaches to the cooperation in the defence sector. The two leaders also exchanged views on regional and multilateral cooperation at the delegation-level talks.
Although the U.S. and the DPRK do not have diplomatic relations, but USA diplomats have visited the country on a number of occasions and Washington has used several behind-the-scenes channels for communications with the North Korean leadership.
But willingness to discuss is not the same thing as giving it up, experts have said.
The U.S. and North Korea do not have formal diplomatic relations, complicating the arrangements for contacts between the two governments.
Moon suggested that the North Korean leader realised he had to pay more attention to pursuing pressing economic reforms to improve the livelihood of his people in the diplomatically isolated state.
Trump, who has exchanged bellicose threats with Kim in the past year, said United States officials were looking at five locations for a meeting with Kim.
The two Koreas have never officially signed a peace treaty since the Korean War ended in a truce. "It's going on right now", he said.
The story, first published by the Washington Post, came on the heels of Trump himself seeming to say that he had been directly talking to Kim, which would have been an extraordinary development in American diplomacy.
If the summit did not happen, the United States and its allies would maintain pressure on North Korea through sanctions, he said.
Addressing the warming ties between the North and South, Trump said the countries "wouldn't be discussing anything" without him. "Subject to a deal, they have my blessing".
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