Well, Donald Trump has met with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, and now they’re off to have dinner together.

The pair are due to be alone in a room together soon, with just translators for company, and who knows what’s going to happen.

You can follow live updates of all that here, if you’re so inclined.

Before they could meet, however, various travel plans had to be made. Earlier we brought you the entertaining footage of Kim’s guards running alongside his Merc. 

Before the Merc, there was a train. Here’s The Guardian:

As Kim made the long train journey from Pyongyang to Hanoi for his second denuclearisation summit with Donald Trump, Kim Yo-jong was by his side again – this time with an ashtray.

Footage captured by the Japanese TV network TBS shows Kim Jong Un, a heavy smoker, taking a pre-dawn cigarette break on Tuesday at Nanning railway station in southern China during his 70-hour journey to Vietnam for his two-day meeting with the US president.

You’ll notice that his sister is following him around with an ashtray:

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He clearly digs a puff, and this isn’t new. Kim is often caught in official photos with a ciggie between his fingers.

…even on a visit to an orphanage and, in July 2017, while standing next to a liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile shortly before its test launch.

But he was forced to go without during his first meeting with the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, just south of their countries’ heavily armed border last April. Over the course of their meetings, Kim did not light up once in Moon’s presence, apparently out of respect for his South Korean counterpart, who is 31 years his senior.

He cracked later and sneaked out to steal a few puffs halfway through the banquet that followed the meeting.

Good effort, though.

[source:guardian]