Trump, North Korea’s Kim to meet in Vietnam on February 27-28

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump said he’ll meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on February 27-28 in Vietnam, ending much of the months-long mystery over the details of their second summit on ending Pyongyang’s atomic ambitions.
“Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one. Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam,” Trump said in his State of the Union speech. Trump didn’t say which city in Vietnam would host the summit.
Since Trump and Kim held their first summit in Singapore in June, little progress has been made toward the US’s ultimate goal —getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. Pyongyang has made no commitments to allow weapons inspections or dismantle its growing arsenal of warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The two sides have been bickering for months over what they agreed to do in Singapore. Washington asserts Kim accepted the “final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea,” while Pyongyang says the deal implied a step-by-step approach where its actions were simultaneously met by US responses, such as relief from sanctions dealing a blow to its moribund economy.
Kim has made it clear he expects to get at least some penalties lifted, denouncing them as “vicious” and threatening in his New Year’s address to take a “new path,” if the US doesn’t ease off.
“If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea,” said Trump, who once hurled insults at Kim on Twitter, calling him ’Little Rocket Man.’