Trump, Kim share smiles, dinner before nuclear talks

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, FOSTER KLUG and DEB RIECHMANN
HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, leaders of two nations with a long history of hostility, opened their second summit Wednesday with smiles, hopeful talk and a friendly dinner that will set the stage for the much more difficult talks to come about curbing North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Facing widespread skepticism about whether they can solve a problem that has bedeviled gener