North has been pushing for Hanoi, home to an embassy where quick and secure communication with Pyongyang will be possible, a former official from the South said
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this month will be held in Hanoi.
“My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting and an agreed upon time and date for the second Summit with Kim Jong-un. It will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27 & 28,” Trump said on Twitter. “I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim & advancing the cause of peace!”
“North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse,” Trump added. “He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket – an Economic one!”
There has been speculation the meeting would be in Da Nang. But South Korea’s former unification minister Chung Sei-hyun told the Post the North had been pushing for Hanoi – home to its embassy where officials will be able to communicate quickly and more securely with Pyongyang.
The US State Department announced that the special US envoy for North Korea will meet again with Pyongyang officials before the second summit – hours after he returned to Seoul from talks in the North on the summit’s agenda.
