Kim Jong-un arrived with his armored train in Vietnam for his second summit with Donald Trump

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Hanoi on Tuesday in Vietnam, where a crowd welcomed him before his second summit with Donald Trump, about which progress is expected on the wave's vague statement. denuclearization signed at the previous meeting in Singapore.

The normally calm Vietnamese train station in Dong Dang, bordering China, dressed for Kim's arrival 4000 kilometers aboard your armored train olive green color of Pyongyang. This is the first trip of a North Korean leader to Vietnam since his grandfather, Kim Il Song, in 1964.

Wearing his traditional Mao-style outfit, Kim greeted him with a smile, before boarding a Mercedes Benz and heading for Hanoi.

Upon arriving in the Vietnamese capital, the North Korean leader was greeted by the crowd waiting for the caravan to pbad behind security gates near the Opera House. Kim then arrived at the Melia Hotel where she is to stay this week and where all the American journalists who were staying were evacuated.

Donald Trump, meanwhile, will travel to Hanoi with his Air Force One and will land in the Vietnamese capital in the afternoon.

The US president has shown himself optimistic about this appointment, declaring Monday on Twitter that he looked forward to "a very productive summit".

There are very few details about the meeting. The two leaders They will have dinner together Wednesday At night, accompanied by some of her advisers, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Then, on Thursday, they will keep several meetings.

Last year, Kim and Trump held a meeting in Singapore that ended with a vague statement on Pyongyang's efforts to move toward nuclear disarmament. without clear deadlines or objectives.

The lack of progress registered since then has been skeptical of many observers, who hope that more concrete measures will now be taken for the dismantling of the Pyongyang arsenal.

Stephen Biegun, US envoy to the North, recently acknowledged that Washington and Pyongyang they were not "agreed on the meaning" of denuclearization.

The United States has repeatedly called for a complete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament from North Korea.

But for Pyongyang, this dismantling of its nuclear program must be accompanied by the lifting of international sanctions against him.

At a ceremony held on Sunday at the White House, Trump appeared to want to reduce the expectations of a global deal. "The sanctions continue, everything is going as planned, but we have a special feeling and I think it will lead to something positive, but maybe not," he said.

And he repeated that he was in no hurry to convince the North to give up his nuclear arsenal, as long as the country continues without launching a missile. "I do not want to rush anyone," he said.

However, from Congress, the pressure has not stopped for the President of the White House to take a firmer stance. Influential Senator Marco Rubio, for example, has asked Washington to "maximize" the pressure on Pyongyang.

"US negotiators must push for a strong agreement that completely, irreversibly and irreversibly dismantles North Korea's nuclear and missile programs," he said in a statement released shortly after the launch of the North Korean nuclear and missile program. 39, Trump aircraft for Vietnam.

Pyongyang said it has already taken action, such as suspending its missile tests or nuclear devices for more than a year, in addition to destroying the access roads to its atomic test fields.

According to Harry Kazianis of the Conservative National Interest Group, both sides should "take at least one step towards denuclearization" because "nothing would be worse for both of them than leaving the meeting after wasting time" ".

"Trump will focus more on a speech that he got peace instead of pushing Kim towards denuclearization, "predicts Scott Seaman, an badyst at Eurasia Group.

For Kim Yong-hyun of Dongguk University, the best result would be that the two leaders agree on a roadmap on denuclearization.

Washington could promise security in the form of an official statement on the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), which results in an armistice instead of a peace treaty.

The South Korean presidency has considered this possibility credible. "I think there is a real possibility," said his spokesman, Kim Eui-kyeom.