Kim, Trump to get down business post social dinner in Hanoi

Washington seeks to reach a denuclearisation agreement with Pyongyang.

Hanoi: US President Donald Trump has left the Marriott Hotel in Hanoi for a dinner with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Washington seeks to reach a denuclearisation agreement with Pyongyang. Kim has also left Melia hotel for what the White House has described as a 'social dinner' with Trump.

The two leaders are scheduled to meet for 20 minutes before dinner. They will sit down again for formal meetings on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney will join Trump during dinner.Kim is expected to be accompanied by Kim Yong Chol, a key negotiator in talks with the US, and Ri Yong Ho, the Foreign Affairs Minister.There's growing worry among experts that Trump, eager for a denuclearisation agreement, will give Kim too much and get too little in return - a peace declaration for the Korean War that the Pyongyang could use to eventually push for the reduction of US troops in South Korea.

(With inputs from APTN)