North Korean first lady Ri Sol-ju and U.S. first lady Melania Trump / Korea Times file

Will Kim Yo-jong, Ivanka Trump meet?

By Kim Bo-eun

The first ladies of North Korea and the U.S. are unlikely to come to Hanoi.

There had been speculation about a possible meeting between Ri Sol-ju and Melania Trump, but North Korea and the U.S. appear to have excluded any events that could take attention away from the summit.

Ri was not on the list of North Korean delegates accompanying leader Kim Jong-un to Hanoi for the summit with the U.S., in the North's Rodong Sinmun's report on Sunday. She was absent from footage unveiled by North Korean media of her husband Kim departing Pyongyang.

Sara Cook of CBS News posted on Twitter that Melania Trump will not be traveling to Vietnam, citing this was confirmed by her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham.

Neither of the first ladies were present at the first summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore last June.