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Trump-Kim summit set for Singapore's Sentosa Island - White House

By Steve Holland and Aradhana Aravindan

 

A view of Sentosa island and the skyline of the central business district in Singapore June 4, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su

 

WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be on Singapore's southern island of Sentosa, the White House said on Tuesday as preparations accelerated for next week's event.

 

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a Twitter post that the venue would be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa and thanked Singaporeans for their hospitality. The summit is scheduled to start on the morning of June 12.

 

Trump told reporters at an Oval Office event that plans for what will be the first meeting between a serving U.S. president and a North Korean leader, were "moving along very well."

 

"A lot of relationships being built, a lot of negotiations going on before the trip," he said. "We’ll see what happens. But it's very important – it'll be a very important couple of days."

 

Trump, who is seeking to persuade Kim to shut down a nuclear missile programme that now threatens the United States, said on Friday the summit he had cancelled the previous week was back on after he received the North Korean delegation bearing a letter from Kim.

 

Trump said last week he expected an eventual "very positive result" with North Korea but dampened expectations for a breakthrough in Singapore, saying it could take several meetings to reach an agreement.

 

Trump said one thing that could come out of the summit is an agreement formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War, which was concluded only with a truce, not a peace treaty.

 

Former U.S. officials and analysts say that if the meeting produces a peace declaration, this could give Trump a big headline-grabbing, made-for-TV moment on the world stage.

 

But they say the public relations value of such a historic event could quickly fade if Trump fails, in return, to wring any significant concessions from Kim towards the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

 

North Korea defends its nuclear and missile programs as a deterrent against what it sees as U.S. aggression. The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the Korean War.

 

On Monday, Singapore declared a central region that is home to its foreign ministry, the U.S. embassy and several hotels, as a special zone from June 10 to 14. In its online gazette, the government amended the area to include Sentosa and an area of the sea stretching more than 1 km (0.6 mile) off its southwestern shore.

 

The Singapore government has said police would make stricter checks of people and personal belongings and items such as public address systems and remotely piloted aircraft system would be prohibited in the area.

 

(Reporting by Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom in Washington and Aradhana Aravindan and Dewey Sim in Singapore; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Grant McCool)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-06

[Thailand]

Don't book a holiday to Sentosa next week.

[khwaibah]

Its only rated 4.5 stars. Cheep Charles. 

[evadgib]

Link of peripheral interest:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-secretary-meets-with-counterparts-at-singapores-shangri-la-dialogue

[Grouse]

Great for the kids!

[Boon Mee]

This poster used to play golf ⛳ out there until the green fees got out of hand! 

Lovely location. 

[BuaBS]

Hope Kim brings his own food and lots of security.

It would be a perfect time for CIA to infect him with a slow working agent . Kim is sticking his neck out way too far.

Singapore is a bad choice for this meeting. Vladivostok would have been much better. Just over the border and with Russian security.

[Jingthing]

Anyone get the irony of this meeting being in Singapore considering what Kim did to his own half brother in neighboring Malaysia? 

[ballpoint]

3 hours ago, Grouse said:

Great for the kids!

Both of them.

[Srikcir]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Singapore declared a central region that is home to its foreign ministry, the U.S. embassy and several hotels, as a special zone from June 10 to 14. In its online gazette, the government amended the area to include Sentosa

That might kill tourist attraction Universal Studio's theme park for 5 days.

Not to mention vendors serving Palawan Beach and Sentosa Boardwalk.

Will the US government pay for the lost revenues?

 

[Morch]

4 hours ago, Srikcir said:

That might kill tourist attraction Universal Studio's theme park for 5 days.  Not to mention vendors serving Palawan Beach and Sentosa Boardwalk. Will the US government pay for the lost revenues?

 

 

Got to love how no one expect Kim to foot any bills.

Overall, just the extra staff sent by media networks ought to balance it.