N Korea's delegate Kim Hyok Chol arrives in Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim meeting

Pyongyang's special representative for the US Kim Hyok Chol arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday with a North Korean delegation, an AFP reporter and source confirmed, ahead of a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un next week. "A team of North Koreans arrived on a flight from Beijing," a source at the airport confirmed, requesting anonymity.

An AFP reporter saw Kim walk into a government guesthouse where other North Korean officials in town for pre-summit preparations were staying over the weekend.