By Kim Young Shin

U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 31 said he will announce next week the location and date of his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expected in late February.

The president is expected to release details of the talks in his State of the Union address scheduled for Feb. 5.

"We're going to a certain location. I think most of you know where the location is. I don’t think it's any great secret. But we'll be announcing the location and the date — the exact date. It will be at the end of February," he told reporters at the White House.

"And we've made tremendous progress with North Korea. Now there's no missile testing. There's no rocket testing. There’s no nuclear testing. We got back our prisoners or our hostages and we're getting back our remains (of American soldiers killed during the Korean War)."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also told Fox News on Jan. 30, "I think we'll have a summit at the end of the month, that's the plan," adding, "That's what the North Koreans have now agreed to. That's what we’ve agreed to with them as well."

"We will do it in some place in Asia," he said. "I'm dispatching a team there. They're headed that way now to lay the foundations for what I hope will be a substantial, additional step towards the path for, not only denuclearization of the peninsula, but a brighter future for the North Korean people."

"Now it's time for my team and all of the United States government to work with the North Koreans to execute [the commitments made in the previous summit] and to deliver on our commitment to denuclearize that peninsula."

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