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US President Donald Trump has revealed he will hold a two-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this month.
Mr Trump said the summit would happen on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam.
He confirmed the dates during a State of the Union address in which he also vowed to build a border wall and called for an end to investigations into his finances and administration.
“As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Mr Trump said during his address.
The US President has previously said his talks with Mr Kim and their first meeting in Singapore last June have opened a path to peace.
But there is no concrete plan for how denuclearisation could be implemented.
Mr Trump also used the address to declare illegal immigration an urgent national crisis, and vowed to get his US-Mexico border wall built.
“In the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall, but the proper wall never got built. I will get it built,” Mr Trump said in the highly anticipated speech before a joint session of the US Congress, with his main Democratic adversary, new House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, watching over his shoulder.
Democrats say the wall would be a waste of money and ineffective.
At the same time, Mr Trump warned Democratic efforts to investigate his administration, along with the possibility of US involvement in wars abroad, would endanger the US economy.
“An economic miracle is taking place in the United States and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations,” he said.
His remarks come as Democrats, who now control the House, plan a series of probes into the Trump administration and special prosecutor Robert Mueller investigates Russian meddling into the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
Russia denies meddling and Mr Trump has said there was no collusion.
Apart from lauding economic accomplishments — unemployment near a five-decade low and manufacturing job growth among them — Mr Trump’s speech was light on new initiatives to further stoke economic growth.
More to come.
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