HANOI - As 100 or so journalists stake out behind a barrier near the Melia Hotel in downtown Hanoi, and another bunch keeps watch some 10km away at the J. W. Marriott, workers at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel have been going about giving the colonial building a last scrub.
All signs point to this iconic neo-classical hotel as being the venue that will host denuclearisation talks between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday .