Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Dalian in northeastern China's
U.S. President Donald Trump has also agreed to meet Kim, apparently to personally confirm the North's willingness to denuclearize.
Trump tweeted Tuesday that he planned to speak with Xi later in the day to discuss trade and North Korea, where he said "relationships and trust are building".
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Kim Jong Un in China for the second time in six weeks on Tuesday and later spoke with Donald Trump, in an intensifying whirlwind of diplomacy as the North Korean and USA leaders prepare for a historic summit.
China backs Pyongyang's adherence to the denuclearization of the peninsula and advocates a dialogue between North Korea and the United States for resolving the peninsula issue, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing Xi, as saying.
The President revealed that the senior USA politician has numerous meetings scheduled - just minutes before Mr Pompeo was due to arrive in Japan to refuel before flying on to Pyongyang.
Pompeo met Kim on his first trip but said he did not know whom he would meet this time.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who attended the meeting along with South Korean President Moon Jae-In, said his nation would normalise ties with North Korea if the nuclear and missile issues, along with that of the abduction of Japanese citizens, were solved comprehensively.
Analysts say Japan is trying to showcase improved ties and cooperation with China and South Korea so its views will be represented in any negotiations with North Korea.
USA officials say Pompeo will also press North Korea for the release of three detained American citizens, whose imminent release Trump has been hinting at.
Asked whether that could happen, Trump told reporters: "We'll soon be finding out".
Pompeo heading to North Korea
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Trump's disclosure that Pompeo would arrive in the reclusive country "in an hour" came after his announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, a multilateral agreement aimed to freezing the Iranian nuclear programme.
It is Mr Pompeo's second trip to Pyongyang after a meeting with Mr Kim last month while he was Central Intelligence Agency director. Trump has previously said he wouldn't lift sanctions until North Korea dismantles its nuclear program.
The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea met in Tokyo on Wednesday in a powerful gesture of solidarity against the backdrop of historic diplomatic moves by North Korea and a push for the isolated country to give up its nuclear weapons.
If the Trump-Kim meeting ends with less optimism, or without concessions from both sides, yet the North Korea-South Korea relationship continues to improve on its own due to the newly sparked relationship between Kim and South Korean President Moon, then I think the credit should be shifted to Kim and Moon.
"We've been asking for the release of these detainees for 17 months", Pompeo said.
Mr Trump's comments on Tuesday follow an earlier confirmation that Mr Kim had made a second trip to China to meet President Xi Jinping ahead of the summit with the United States president.
"We'll talk about it again today", he said.
Its second goal, he said, was to establish that the United States would not "relieve sanctions until such time as we achieved our objectives".
"We are not going to do this in small increments, where the world is essentially coerced into relieving economic pressure", he explained.
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