North Korea's leader Kim Jong un will meet Donald Trump in Vietnam (Image: GETTY )
The old arch enemies are due to meet in Hanoi on February 27 and 28 following their historic first meeting last June in Singapore. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington aims to "get as far down the road as we can" at the historic summit. Kim will meet with Vietnamese officials when he arrives in Hanoi, according to three sources with direct knowledge of Kim's schedule.
One source said he will also visit the Vietnamese manufacturing base of Bac Ninh and the industrial port town of Hai Phong.
Vietnam's president and general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, will reportedly meet the crackpot despot ahead of a planned trip by Trong to neighbouring Laos.
Kim Jong-un's close aide, Kim Chang Son, was reportedly in Hanoi on Saturday visiting a government guesthouse and the Metropole and Melia hotels in the centre of the capital.
Communist-ruled Vietnam, which has embraced economic reforms and developed close diplomatic ties with its former foe the US, has been widely touted as a model of reform for isolated and impoverished North Korea.
The former Cold War allies, which share a similar socialist ideology and exchanged military and political support during
