A second nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is scheduled for the end of the month in Vietnam. President Trump made the announcement during Tuesday’s State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.
The summit, planned for Feb. 27-28, will attempt to further refine an agreement that came out of the first summit in June. In that agreement, the U.S. said it would normalize relations with North Korea in exchange for “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” But progress on the plan has been slow since then, as each country wants the other to be the first to make concessions.
“North Korea has said normalization must start before denuclearization, while the U.S. maintains that the North must hand over its nuclear weapons before any normalization can begin,” NPR reported in November.
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