Pompeo to Travel to North Korea With New Special Envoy

New US special representative to North Korea Stephen Biegun speaks after being named by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) at the State Department in Washington, DC, on August 23, 2018. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit North Korea again next week to try to persuade it to abandon its nuclear weapons, and will take a new U.S. special representative, Stephen Biegun, with him in an attempt to break the deadlock.

Pompeo on Aug. 23 named the Ford Motor Co. executive, a veteran Republican foreign policy hand, as the U.S. special envoy to North Korea.