U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with a high-ranking North Korean official in Pyongyang on Wednesday and expressed hope to work together to resolve the conflict between the two countries. 

According to a report from the U.S. press corps accompanying Pompeo during his visit to the North, Kim Yong-chol, a vice chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party, hosted a welcome luncheon for the U.S. delegation on Wednesday.  

Kim said he had high expectations that the U.S. will play a “very big role” in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula, and Pompeo said he and the other U.S. delegation members were equally committed to working with the North to achieve exactly that. 

Pompeo said that although the two countries have been “adversaries” for decades, they are now hoping to work together to resolve the conflict, remove threats to the world and make North Korea have all the opportunities its people so richly deserve.

It is Pompeo’s second visit to the North in less than two months following the one that he made as director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Easter weekend last month. 

During the latest trip to Pyongyang, Pompeo is expected to discuss critical details regarding the upcoming U.S.-North summit such as the date, venue and main agenda as well as the possible release of three American prisoners in the North. 

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