Just near the entrance to Vietnam’s Military History Museum, families posed for photos in front of a statue made from wreckage of Hellcat engines unearthed in the wake of the war. A few meters away, banners hung across the medians of misty avenues reading “Hanoi, the city for peace.”

This week, the Vietnamese capital gets the chance to live up to that nickname as U.S. President Donald Trump touched down Tuesday for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, where the pair will attempt to revive denuclearization talks.

Trump and Kim are expected to meet twice, and both are determined to walk away with a win. For Trump, the stakes are high and the bar is low — the failure of their meeting in Singapore last June to produce meaningful security outcomes has left him in need of a compromise. So long as Kim doesn’t provoke his counterpart, the two should be on course for a closing handshake.

America’s stated goal has long been the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclea..

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam Tuesday for his second summit with President Donald Trump — and his detachment of bodyguards, famous for jogging alongside his motorcade, were right there with him.

The group of 12 men, all of them wearing black suits, striped ties and personalized badges pinned to their lapels, flanked Kim’s limousine as he left his hotel for the North Korean embassy in Hanoi on Tuesday.

They are part of an elite military group known as the Main Office of Adjutants, or the Central Party Office #6, according to the BBC. To become one of Kim’s elite guards (the group is comprised of between 200 and 300 personnel), potential recruits are subjected to rigorous background checks — family members going back two generations can be vetted. Recruits tend to be drawn from elite North Korean families.

Kim’s bodyguards are picked for fitness, height, eyesight, marksmanship, martial arts prowess, and even their good looks, says the BBC’s South Korea corresponde..

In perhaps the worst flare of tensions between India and Pakistan in two decades, Indian fighter jets bombed Pakistani-controlled territory on Tuesday in a dispute over the contested region of Kashmir.

The attack came 12 days after 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed in a suicide bombing on Feb. 14 in the Pulwama district of Kashmir. It was the deadliest attack in the insurgency that has raged for 30 years in the contested Himalayan region that borders the two countries.

With Indian elections approaching this spring, India’s retaliation threatens to escalate tensions which are already at boiling point. India and Pakistan already went to war over Kashmir back in 1999, and now, each is ready to point nuclear missiles at the other.

The situation is more fraught than it has been for decades, analysts say. On Feb. 21, India threatened to cut off water supply to Pakistan, and two days later said it would send 10,000 extra troops into Indian-administered Kashmir. At least 40 inciden..