S Korea wants specific results from US-N Korea summit

Seoul: South Korea on Wednesday welcomed the announcement from the White House about the upcoming second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be held in Vietnam later this month.

South Korean presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said during a briefing in Seoul that his government hoped the leaders of Washington and Pyongyang would take actions in Vietnam that are "more specific and practical" than those taken in the first summit in Singapore last year.

"We expect that Vietnam will become a great background for North Korea and the US to make new history," he added.

Trump announced in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday that he would hold a second summit with Kim in Vietnam from February 27-28.