--- title: Trump, Kim Jong Un Expected to Meet in Vietnam in February description: Administration officials are planning for President Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to take place in Vietnam. canonical: https://time.com/5508197/trump-north-korean-summit-vietnam/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-20T18:13:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:56.581Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump and Kim Jong Un Are Planning to Meet in Vietnam in February for Their Second Summit og:description: Trump and Kim held their first meeting in Singapore in June og:url: https://time.com/5508197/trump-north-korean-summit-vietnam/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt607292075eca3c3c/698943a7db298799c5261ae9/trump-north-korea-summit.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: trump-north-korea-summit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump and Kim Jong Un Are Planning to Meet in Vietnam in February for Their Second Summit twitter:description: Trump and Kim held their first meeting in Singapore in June twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt607292075eca3c3c/698943a7db298799c5261ae9/trump-north-korea-summit.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump and Kim Jong Un Are Planning to Meet in Vietnam in February for Their Second Summit > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump said Saturday that “things are going very well with North Korea” and he plan a second summit with leader Kim Jong Un to try to broker a deal that would entice the North to give up its nuclear weapons._ by [Jennifer Jacobs and Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Jennifer Jacobs and Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg Contributor Jan 20, 2019 6:13 PM UTC  This combination of pictures created on Nov. 12, 2018 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during the Inter-Korean summit in the Peace House building on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018, and President Donald Trump during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 2018. This combination of pictures created on Nov. 12, 2018 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during the Inter-Korean summit in the Peace House building on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018, and President Donald Trump during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 2018.KOREA SUMMIT PRESS POOL, MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images by [Jennifer Jacobs and Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Jennifer Jacobs and Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg Contributor Jan 20, 2019 6:13 PM UTC Administration officials are planning for President Donald Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to take place in Vietnam, said people familiar with the plans. The White House announced on Friday that Trump would meet Kim in late February, following a 90-minute meeting between the president and Kim Yong Chol, one of the North Korean leader’s top aides. The pair discussed denuclearization and a second summit, the White House said at the time. Kim Yong Chol also met Friday with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. Trump and Kim held their first meeting in Singapore in June. The February summit is likely to take place in Hanoi, the capital, but Danang, site of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, and Ho Chi Minh City in the country’s south have also been discussed as possible venues. Neither the administration nor the North Koreans offered much else after Friday’s meetings about what they’d agreed to and what would be gained from the planned summit. That only raised more questions because so little progress has been made toward the U.S.’s ultimate goal — getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons — since the first meeting between Trump and Kim. The prospect of another meeting with Kim, the enigmatic leader with whom Trump’s struck an unlikely rapport, offered him a departure from the partisan stalemate over the U.S. government shutdown and the continued drip of investigations into his Russia dealings. The president basked in the aftermath of the first summit, when he declared North Korea that was no longer a nuclear threat. Why Trump Holds the Cards on North Korea Sanctions: QuickTake Still, more than seven months later, North Korea has made no commitments to allow weapons inspections or dismantle its growing arsenal of warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles. 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