Jimmy Carter planning trip to North Korea

Former President Jimmy Carter is planning to travel to North Korea, perhaps as soon as April, the State Department said Thursday.
The department has been “made aware of the trip,” spokesman Mark Toner said, declining to offer any other details.

Carter’s spokeswoman did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for more information about the former president’s travel plans.

The confirmation came on the heels of a Wednesday report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency that a trip was in the works and that former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former Irish President Mary Robinson and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland may join Carter in his travels.