Trump flew to Hanoi to negotiations with Kim Jong -un

US President Donald Trump went to the capital of Vietnam Hanoi for negotiations with the chairman of the State Council of the DPRK Kim Jong -un, TASS reports. The broadcast of departure on Monday was conducted by American news television companies.

The plane of the American leader took off from the Andrews air base near Washington. According to the White House press gun, Trump did not communicate with reporters before departure. Together with the president, a press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders and the acting head of the White House apparatus Mick Malveni sat on the aircraft - the rest of the American delegation at this moment were already on board.

The White House did not answer the request of the TASS correspondent to clarify whether the first lady Melania Trump went with the president in Hanoi.

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In the Vietnamese capital, the American leader must arrive on Tuesday evening. Along the way, the aircraft will land for refueling, while a specific stopping place is not reported.

“I think we will have a magnificent summit. We want denuclearization, and I think that it will have a country that will put a lot of speed records in terms of economics,” Trump said about Kim Jong -un and the prospect of cooperation with him, speaking before leaving the White House.

The president wrote on his microblog Twitter that without denuclearization of North Korea would have to continue to endure "all the same." He also expressed confidence that Kim Jong -un would "make a wise decision."

After Trump’s departure in Hanoi in the United States, a rare situation has developed when both the president and the vice president are absent in the country: they usually try to build their work schedule in such a way as to avoid such a lining. However, this time she nevertheless happened, since Michael Pence went on a visit to Colombia at night, where they discuss the Venezuelan crisis and the introduction of sanctions against the Nicholas Maduro regime. Pence will return to Washington only at about 19:00 local time (03:00 Tuesday Moscow time).

While the president and vice-president are absent, the most senior official in the country will remain the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi-the third person in the American political hierarchy, to whom the functions of the head of state should go, if something will happen to Trump and Pence, TASS notes.

In Hanoi, as expected, Trump will stay at the JW Marriott Hotel (suite-segment of the Marriott International hotel network, located in the new business area of ​​the Vietnamese capital with the rear. Officially, none of the sides of the summit, as well as the authorities of Vietnam, did not make statements about which hotels they plan to stop Trump and Kim Jong -un. Nevertheless, safety measures have been strengthened near JW Marriott, earlier the territory near it was checked by sappers of the Vietnamese special services and dog handlers of the US Secret Service.

Earlier on Monday, at a meeting with the Governors of the States in the White House, Trump said that the upcoming meeting with the DPRK leader, in his opinion, would be amazing. He added that he was discussing with Kim Jong -un topics that no one had touched before.

According to Trump, he and Kim Jong -un "understand each other well." “I think this will become more and more obvious in the next few days. I am convinced that very interesting two and a half days in Vietnam are waiting for us. And we have a chance to complete denuclearization of the region, which was very dangerous,” the American president shared hopes.

The first US summit in history - the DPRK was held on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. According to its results, Trump and Kim Jong -un signed a joint document in which Pyongyang assumed denuclearization obligations in exchange for security guarantees by Washington. From the second meeting of the leaders of the United States and the DPRK, which will be held on February 27 and 28, they expect more specific agreements on the specific steps of the two countries to resolve the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

So far there are no signs that the second summit will be successful. At the same time, the lack of a breakthrough in the negotiations may entail negative political consequences for Trump, the Voice of America notes.

“If the president will make significant concessions, I think he will face serious criticism from both parties,” says James James Jay Karafano, vice -president of the Institute for Research of National Security and Foreign Policy of the Heritage Foundation Foundation.

The ambulance of brief conclusions of the report of the special prosecutor Robert Muller according to the results of the investigation between the possible connections between Trump’s election headquarters and Russia is added.

Some analysts believe that the political damage to Trump will be minimal, since he can simply proclaim another foreign policy victory. “It is enough for Kim Jong -un that he was disarmed, and Trump pretended to believe him,” said the adjunct professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Vipin Nrang.

“Provided that Kim Jong -un does not publicly disgrace Trump, having tested nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles, Trump can continue to continue in the internal political level,” says Nrang, author of the book “Nuclear Strategy in the Modern World.”, The advantage for Trump is that the expansion of the North Korean nuclear program is mostly quiet and mentioned in the same way Best on the 10th page of American newspapers. "