North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday departed Pyongyang for the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi, the country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) confirmed on Sunday morning.

The North Korean leader left “for the second DPRK-U.S. summit meeting and talks to be held in Hanoi, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” yesterday afternoon, the KCNA reported.

The report marks North Korean media’s first official confirmation that next week’s summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump will be held in the Vietnamese capital.

The DPRK leader is reportedly accompanied by a litany of high-ranking officials, including Vice Chairmen of