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Trump to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this month

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.

More to come.

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