North Korea confirmed leader Kim Jong Un’s second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time on Sunday, days before the high-stakes nuclear meeting is set to take place in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi.
Kim left Pyongyang by train on Saturday afternoon for the Feb. 27-28 summit accompanied by senior North Korean officials including nuclear envoy Kim Yong Chol and foreign minister Ri Yong Ho, as well as his sister Kim Yo Jong, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency said.
Kim will also make an official goodwill visit to Vietnam “soon,” KCNA said.
Vietnam’s foreign ministry announced earlier on Saturday that Kim will make an official visit to Vietnam in the “coming days” at the invitation of Nguyen Phu Trong, the president and general secretary of the Southeast Asian nation’s ruling Communist Party.
