Donald Trump paid a secret flying visit to Britain last night on his way to meet Kim Jong-un in Asia.
Air Force One touched down at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk at around 11.40pm and spent around an hour on the Tarmac while the US President's jet was refuelled.
White House staff posed with US Air Force personnel in front of the famous blue and white Boeing 747 but Trump appears to have stayed on board.
RAF Mildenhall is known as 'Little America' because it houses 3,100 American airmen and their families and is the US Air Force's main refuelling base in Europe.
President Trump is flying to Hanoi in Vietnam to meet Kim with both sides under pressure to agree a denuclearisation deal at their second historic summit.
After stopping in Britain he flew to Doha where Air Force One refuelled again before flying non-stop to its final destination.
Air Force One carrying Donald Trump touched down at RAF Mildenhall in where US military personal stationed at the base posed with White House staffers while the president stayed on board
President Trump jetted off to Vietnam from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, for what he predicted will be a 'very productive summit'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wound down his window to wave at the thousands gathered outside as he headed to Hanoi, where
Trump and his team are crossing the globe for crunch talks with the North Koreans
Earlier today Kim Jong Un stepped off his armoured train in a Vietnamese border town and into his limousine ahead of his second nuclear summit with the US president.
Mr Kim, dressed in his trademark dark Mao suit, shook hands with officials as Vietnamese troops stood at attention on a red carpet beneath large North Korean and Vietnamese flags at the Dong Dang railway station on the China-Vietnam border.
A crowd gathered along the road near the station to wave North Korean flags and bouquets of flowers as the North Korean leader stepped into a black limousine that was then surrounded by bodyguards who ran alongside their leader as he left the station.
Mr Kim was then driven to Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, ahead of his Wednesday meeting with Mr Trump where he went to the North Korean embassy.
The leaMr Kim's arrival comes as Vietnamese officials scramble to finish preparations for a rushed summit that is meant to deal with one of Asia's biggest security challenges: North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear programme that stands on the verge of viably threatening any target on the planet.
Although many experts are sceptical Mr Kim will give up the nuclear weapons he likely sees as his best guarantee of continued rule, there was a palpable, carnival-like excitement among many in Hanoi as the final preparations were made for the meeting.
Officials in Hanoi said they only had about 10 days to prepare for the summit - much less than the nearly two months Singapore had before the first Trump-Kim meeting last year - but still vowed to provide airtight security for the two leaders.
'Security will be at the maximum level,' Vietnamese deputy minister of foreign affairs Le Hoai Trung told reporters.
Kim Jong-un stopped for a cigarette break at Nanning station in southern China around 3.30am on Tuesday while on his way to Vietnam
Schoolchildren waving North Korean flags and a military guard of honor greeted Kim as he stepped from his personal train, on to the platform, draped in a red carpet
North Korean bodyguards run along a limousine transporting North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un upon his arrival at the border town with China in Dong Dang, Vietnam
The American and North Korean flags are waved in front of Kim's motorcade as the North Korean dictator arrives in Hanoi
The ultra-tight security will be appreciated by North Korean authorities, who are extremely vigilant about the safety of Mr Kim, the third member of his family to rule the North with absolute power.
Vietnam has announced an unprecedented traffic ban along a possible arrival route for Mr Kim.
The Communist Party's Nhan Dan newspaper quoted the Roads Department as saying the ban will affect the 105-mile stretch of Highway One from Dong Dang, on the border with China, to Hanoi.
There are high expectations for the Hanoi summit after a vague declaration at the first meeting in June in Singapore that disappointed many.
In a meeting with senior aides in Seoul, South Korean president Moon Jae-in said that the Trump-Kim talks would be a critical opportunity to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Mr Moon, who met Mr Kim three times last year and has lobbied hard to revive nuclear diplomacy between the US and North Korea, is eager for a breakthrough that would allow him to push ambitious plans for inter-Korean engagement, including lucrative joint economic projects that are held back by US-led sanctions against the North.
'If President Trump succeeds in dissolving the world's last remaining Cold War rivalry, it will become yet another great feat that will be indelibly recorded in world history,' Mr Moon said.
Mr Trump, via Twitter, has worked to temper those expectations, predicting before leaving for Hanoi a 'continuation of the progress' made in Singapore but adding a tantalising nod to 'Denuclearisation?'
He also said that Mr Kim knows that 'without nuclear weapons, his country could fast become one of the great economic powers anywhere in the World'.
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Main photo article Donald Trump paid a secret flying visit to Britain last night on his way to meet Kim Jong-un in Asia.
Air Force One touched down at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk at around 11.40pm and spent around an hour on the Tarmac while the US President’s jet was refuelled.
White House staff posed with U...
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