Reporter’s Notebook: Hanoi Hyped to Play Summit Host

(Hanoi) — As the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got underway in Hanoi, Vietnam, I couldn’t help but notice Hanoi has an energy that was absent from the first summit in Singapore in June.

“People in Hanoi are very excited by any large-scale events that happen here. They are simply curious,” said Pham Thu Phuong, a reporter at the Hanoi Times and a native of the city.