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Luxury hotels, a private dinner, and a possible trip to an Instagram beauty spot: Here's how Trump's 2nd summit with Kim Jong Un is scheduled to go down

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  • President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are set to meet this week in Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • The leaders are booked in for a series of meetings and photo ops as well as a private dinner.
  • Kim might also visit a mausoleum in Hanoi and an Instagram-famous bay popular with tourists.
  • Take a look at the two leaders' schedules below.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump are set to meet for a second time this week, with Trump hoping to push Kim toward denuclearizing his country.

They are due to meet in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday. Kim arrived in the city on Tuesday afternoon local time, a few hours ahead of Trump's landing.

Here's what the two leaders are scheduled to do during their visit. All times are in local time for Vietnam.

Tuesday morning: Kim arrives in Vietnam

Kim's notoriously slow, personal armored train pulled into the Vietnamese border city of Dong Dang at about 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

He then traveled to Hanoi by car.

According to The New York Times, Kim most likely traveled through northern Vietnamese provinces, like Bac Giang, where hundreds of North Korean air-force officers were deployed during the Vietnam War, in a show of goodwill between the two nations. Some North Korean officers' graves are there.

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Tuesday afternoon: Kim arrives in Hanoi and boots out all the journalists from his hotel

Kim's motorcade — complete with his bodyguards who run alongside his car — was photographed in the city center on Tuesday afternoon.

Read more:US news reporters were abruptly kicked out of Kim Jong Un's hotel in Vietnam

He was booked into the Meliá Hanoi, a five-star hotel in downtown Hanoi. Journalists who had arrived days before Kim and staged their equipment at the hotel's media center were abruptly given one hour to relocate, reportedly because Kim didn't want to share a hotel with American journalists.

President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One for a trip to Vietnam to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Tuesday night: Trump touches down

Trump arrived at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport at 9 p.m., according to White House pool reporters.

It's expected to take him another half an hour to arrive at his hotel for the night. The New York Times, Yonhap, and The Straits Times reported that Trump is staying at the JW Marriott Hotel, about five miles from where Kim is staying.

The US president is traveling with officials including the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders; acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney; social-media director, Dan Scavino; and senior adviser Stephen Miller.

Wednesday morning: Trump hammers out some trade deals with Vietnam first

At 11 a.m., Trump is expected to meet Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong, take part in bilateral talks with a Vietnamese delegation, and sign some trade deals, according to White House pool reporters. Details of the deals are not clear.

Trump is then scheduled to meet Vietnam's prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, for a working lunch and more bilateral meetings.

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Wednesday night: Trump and Kim meet for the first time in Vietnam

Trump and Kim are scheduled to meet Wednesday evening, their first meeting since their June summit in Singapore.

They plan to speak one-on-one — most likely with translators — before moving onto a private "social dinner," White House pool reporters said.

Trump is expected to bring Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the dinner. Pompeo met with Kim several times while laying the ground for the first summit.

Kim will reportedly bring Kim Yong Chol, a key North Korean negotiator with the US, and an unknown third person.

The unknown third dinner guest could be Kim Yo Jong, who is Kim's sister. Kim Yo Jong accompanied her brother to the first Trump summit last year and was seen holding a crystal ash tray for him during a brief stop during their train ride from China.

Read more:Meet North Korea's most powerful woman, Kim Yo Jong — Kim Jong Un's 30-ish sister who played a key role in the first summit with Trump

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Thursday: As many as 4 more meetings

Neither the US nor North Korea has released a schedule for Thursday.

But according to Yonhap, Trump and Kim may meet five times during their trip — which would mean as many as four meetings on Thursday alone.

They are expected to meet at the Sofitel Metropole Hotel, a five-star hotel that has a secret underground bunker built during the Vietnam War, Yonhap reported.

After a formal lunch last year in Singapore, the two leaders unexpectedly took a stroll along a hotel courtyard, and Trump showed Kim his presidential car, also known as "The Beast."

Only nine months before that, Trump had threatened to unleash "fire and fury" onto North Korea, and Kim called Trump a "dotard."

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Trump has played down hopes for a breakthrough in the Hanoi summit, which he has characterized as a follow-up to last year's summit where Kim vaguely pledged to work toward denuclearization.

So far, not much progress has been made on that end, and US intelligence has warned that North Korea would probably not give up its nuclear arms, much to Trump's ire.

Read more:'Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!': Trump lashes out at his intel chiefs after they contradict his views on global threats

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Thursday to Sunday: Talk of a trip to the mausoleum and an Instagram-famous bay

Kim is likely to stay in Hanoi through Sunday, Yonhap reported, citing the Meliá hotel's notice that it would conduct enhanced security measures until then.

During his trip he may tour the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, which is located a few blocks from the North Korean Embassy, both Yonhap and The New York Times reported. Ho was a communist revolutionary who led Vietnam's fight for independence from France in 1945.

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He may also visit Halong Bay, a picturesque, Instagram-famous tourist destination about 100 miles from Hanoi. A senior North Korean official went there during a visit to Vietnam last week, The Times reported.

Junk Boat in Halong Bay Vietnam

Here is a recent photo tagged there on Instagram. Hundreds more like it are on the site.

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One reason for Kim's visits to Ho's mausoleum and Halong Bay could be to bring himself closer to his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the founder of the communist North Korea.

The elder Kim met Ho in Vietnam decades ago and also visited Halong Bay in 1964.

Since becoming North Korea's leader in 2011, Kim has been trying to emulate his grandfather, even changing his hairstyle to look like him.

SEE ALSO: Photos over 70 years show how North Korea's Kim family went from starving guerilla fighters to going toe-to-toe with Trump

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