Kim Jong-un has arrived in Vietnam for a highly-anticipated summit with Donald Trump aimed at working towards the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
The North Korean leader was pictured as he left his heavily armoured train at Dong Dang station, where he will disembark and travel the remainder of his journey to Hanoi by car.
Ceremonial guards lined a red carpet laid out for him at the station as he arrived for his first ever visit to country on Tuesday. US President Trump is scheduled to arrive later today.
Kim and Mr Trump are set to meet for the second US-North Korea summit on Wednesday and Thursday after a historic first round of talks last year in Singapore.
The North’s leader close aide Kim Chang Son, who has been in Hanoi for several days preparing for the summit, was spotted at the station before Kim's arrival.
His sister, who has emerged as an important aide to Kim and travelled with him from Pyongyang, was spotted getting off the train before he disembarked.
As he arrived in the southeast Asian country, Kim became the first leader of his isolated country to travel there since his grandfather Kim Il Sung visited in 1964.
Vietnam's model of reform is being widely touted as the economic path for impoverished North Korea to follow as the United States leads efforts to curb Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme and bring it back to the international fold.
Kim travelled through North Korea and thousands of kilometres across China to reach Vietnam on his train, which is made up of carriages decked out with pink leather chairs and big-screen televisions.
Trump and Kim are expected to meet for their second summit in Hanoi's Government Guesthouse, an elegant, colonial-era building in the city centre, or at the nearby Metropole Hotel, sources told Reuters news agency.
Mr Trump has appeared to play down any hope of a major breakthrough at the two-day summit, saying he would be happy as long as North Korea maintained its pause on weapons testing.
Agencies contributed to this report
