President Donald Trump confirmed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he will travel to Vietnam in late February for a second summit with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.

The president used his address to a divided Congress to applaud his administration’s progress in eliminating North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities and affirmed widely reported suggestions that Vietnam would host the summit on February 27 and 28, eight months after the two leaders first met in Singapore. 

“As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula”, Mr Trump said. “Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped and there has not been a missile…

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