The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit Vietnam, officially the DPRK–USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam, or commonly known as Hanoi Summit, will be a two-day summit meeting between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27–28, 2019. This will be the second meeting between leaders of the North Korea and United States, following the first meeting in 2018.
The first North Korea–United States summit was initiated in 2018 in order to overcome the long-term Korean conflict with ICBM nuclear weapons and denuclearize the Korean peninsula. A series of bilateral summits were held between North Korea's Kim Jong-un, China's Xi Jinping, South Korea's Moon Jae-in, and Donald Trump of the United States.
The White House gave confirmation of the planned meeting between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump on September 11, 2018. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo states the DPRK and U.S. are ‘working diligently’ to make sure the conditions are right for the summit. Trump announced the host country (Vietnam) and the dates (February 27–28) during his second State of the Union Address on February 5, 2019. On February 8, 2019, President Trump announced that Hanoi, Vietnam, would host the summit meeting.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh visited North Korea at the invitation of DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho from February 12 to 14. The visit came ahead of the summit between WPK Chairman Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump planned to take place in Hà Nội, Vietnam, on February 27 and 28, a spokeswoman from the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on Twitter. Last week Trump announced he would hold his second meeting with Kim in the Vietnamese capital.
In reply to a question for Vietnam’s comment on Trump’s remarks in his latest State of the Union address on the upcoming summit, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said Vietnam welcomed the second US-DPRK summit and strongly supported dialogue to maintain peace, security and stability on the Korean Peninsula. Vietnam stood ready to actively contribute to and co-operate with both sides to ensure the success of the second DPRK-USA summit, helping to achieve the above-mentioned goal, the official said.
Kim Jong-un departed from Pyongyang on February 21, according to images released by the KCNA news agency. The train will travel for more than two days through China and Vietnam to reach Hanoi, while the exact itinerary is kept secret. Concerning the distance from DPRK to Vietnam, It would be at least a total of around 4,500 kilometers for about 60 hours by train. The train would arrive in Đồng Đăng railway station of the Vietnamese border city of Đồng Đăng on Tuesday (February 26, 2019), and Kim is scheduled to travel to Hanoi by vehicle. Some experts analyzed the reason for late train trip instead of swift air travel, Kim Jong-un opts to follow his grandfather Kim Il Sung's footsteps in 1954 to Vietnam by using the train through a long journey.
Regarding the release from Bloomberg and the South Korean newspaper: Munhwa Ilbo anticipated the location of the second Trump–Kim Summit as Vietnam's capital city Hanoi because Vietnam is a long-standing partner of DPRK, and there is also an excellent foreign relationship between Vietnam and the US. During the 2019 State of the Union Address, President Trump announced Vietnam as the host of the second meeting between the two leaders.
Cheong Seong-chang, vice president of research planning at the Sejong Institute in South Korea, said that "After the first Trump-Kim summit, for 260 days, they did not waste their timeliness. Instead, they continuously finalized their negotiation strategies for the two leader’s agreement and terms for the next step to be discussed on the second Trump-Kim summit." However, Robert Carlin, a former CIA and State Department intelligence analyst, claimed we should not expect too much of the process of denuclearization from North Korea as it is unrealistic to try to see the endpoint of denuclearization in such a hasty mind set. BBC News believes that DPRK Chairman Kim Jong-un could potentially learn from Vietnam's social, political, and economic history during the second Trump-Kim summit.
Al Jazeera news assumed that the impact of China on the second Trump-Kim summit would be significant. The relationship between China and North Korea is centered on "mutual benefit" but it’s differs from "mutual trust" An Australian professor Carlyle Thayer claimed China and the DPRK are of the corresponding inclination after Kims' four visits to China and "It indicates some kind of coordination”. China believes that it is impossible for North Korea to abruptly destroy nuclear missiles. However, as the political power of North Korea’s regime continues to be maintained, it is hoped that North Korea's nuclear missile program will be shut down gradually, as economic sanctions against North Korea are eased, and the presence of US troops in Korea could be reduced.
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