Hanoi to host Trump summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un
February 09, 2019 18:27
US President Donald Trump says his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi.
The two men will meet on 27-28 February for talks expected to focus on persuading the communist state to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
Modern relations with Vietnam are seen as a model for US ties with the North.
A US envoy held "very productive" talks with the North to prepare for the new summit, Trump said.
The first summit between President Trump and Kim in Singapore last June generated significant coverage and optimism but delivered very few concrete developments.
Both sides said they were committed to denuclearisation but gave no details of how this would be carried out or verified.
Trump announced in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he would meet Kim in Vietnam but did not say where exactly the summit would take place.
On Friday evening Washington time, he tweeted that they would meet in Hanoi for "advancing the cause of peace".
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