Pompeo adds Vietnam to current Asia tour as relations deepen

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks to board an aircraft in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Oct. 28. © Reuters

HANOI (Reuters) -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Vietnam on Thursday and Friday as part of a tour of Asia, the Vietnamese and U.S. governments said.

The visit was announced after a U.S. citizen sentenced last year to 12 years in a Vietnamese jail for "attempting to overthrow the state" was released by Hanoi and returned to his home in California last week.

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