Trump en route to Hanoi for second summit with Kim [PHOTOS]
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| U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, February 25, 2019, as he travels to Hanoi, Vietnam for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. AFP |
U.S. President Donald Trump will begin his second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un with a private dinner Wednesday.
The White House said Monday that the leaders' two-day meeting in Hanoi will begin with an official greeting and a meal.
Trump will be joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Kim will also have two aides present and both men will have translators.
Trump and Kim will then hold a series of official meetings Thursday.
Trump is set to land in Vietnam late Tuesday and will have meetings with the host country's president and prime minister Wednesday before seeing Kim.
Trump and Kim first met last June in Singapore, a summit that yielded powerful images but few concrete steps for North Korea's denuclearization.
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| Air Force One, carrying US President Donald Trump, takes off from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, February 25, 2019. AFP |
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| U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, February 25, 2019. AFP |
Trump is on his way to Vietnam for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump and Kim will discuss one of Asia's biggest security challenges: North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear program that stands on the verge of threatening any target on the planet.
Before leaving Washington on Monday, Trump told the nation's governors that ''I think we'll have a very tremendous summit.''
Trump says the U.S. wants denuclearization. He appears to be holding out economic progress for North Korea as a potential reward. He says of North Korea, ''I think he'll have a country that will set a lot of records for speed in terms of an economy.''
Trump was the driving force behind this week's Vietnam summit. It's his second meeting with Kim after the first yielded few concrete results. (AP)