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US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un have wrapped up the first day of a summit in Hanoi that the American president hopes will get Pyongyang to curtail its decades-long push for nuclear weapons.
The two-day summit comes after their first meeting in Singapore more than eight months ago, and is taking place amid escalating tensions 3,000km away between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan.




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epa07398299 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C), followed by members of his delegation, are welcomed at Dong Dang Railway Station, to start his visit to Vietnam ahead of the US-North Korea summit hosted in Hanoi, at Dong Dang town, Lang Son province, Vietnam, 26 February 2019. The second meeting of the US President and the North Korean leader, running from 27 to 28 February 2019, focuses on furthering steps towards achieving peace and complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. EPA-EFE/STRINGER -- VIETNAM OUT -- EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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FILE - In this July 4, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in North Korea's northwest. With their second summit fast approaching, speculation is growing that U.S. President Donald Trump may try to persuade Kim to commit to denuclearization by giving him something he wants more than almost anything else, an announcement of peace and an end to the Korean War. A combination of that strategy and the North's repeated tests of missiles believed capable of delivering its nuclear weapons to the U.S. mainland are what brought the two countries to the negotiation table. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un walk from their lunch at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore. The most sensational of Kim's trip was the summit in Singapore with Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un have wrapped up the first day of their talks in Hanoi aimed at ending both Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and its international isolation
But escalating tensions between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan threaten to steal their thunder


US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un have wrapped up the first day of their talks in Hanoi aimed at ending both Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and its international isolation.
