Washington
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington today bound for Pyongyang and his latest round of talks with Kim Jong Un on North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.

Washington’s top diplomat and senior aides took off and were due in the North Korean capital on Friday, where Pompeo is to stay overnight for the first time.

President Donald Trump met Kim at a historic summit in Singapore last month and the US leader has been bullish about hopes for peace, boasting that the threat of nuclear war is over.