Washington : US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet at the Capella Hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, the White House has said.
“The venue for the Singapore summit between @POTUS and Leader Kim Jong Un will be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island,” White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders tweeted on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
“We thank our great Singaporean hosts for their hospitality,” she added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said that his planned meeting with Kim will “hopefully be the start of something big.”
The White House said on Monday that the meeting is tentatively scheduled for 9.00 a.m. (Singapore time) on June 12 in Singapore.
After recent twists and turns, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week met with Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, in New York.
On Friday, Trump too talked with Kim Yong Chol who delivered a personal letter from Kim Jong-un in a meeting that lasted almost two hours.
Subsequently, Trump said he would meet with the top North Korean leader on June 12 in Singapore as originally scheduled.
US not to pay for N Korean officials’ stay
Washington: The United States State Department on Wednesday said that the US is not paying for North Korean officials to stay in Singapore for next week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “The United States government is not paying for the North Korean delegation to stay. We’re not paying for their expenses,” Yonhap quoted The State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as saying. Last week, delegations from the US and North Korea met at the Capella Hotel to discuss the logistics of the meeting between Trump and Kim.
Abe to meet Trump before summit
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday left to meet US President Donald Trump to coordinate their positions ahead of a historic mid-June summit between the US and North Korea in Singapore. Abe will meet Trump at the White House on Thursday, the second meeting between the two leaders in less than two months, and then travel to Quebec in Canada to attend the G7 summit (June 8-9), the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, Efe news agency reported.
Abe has been sceptical of Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and favours maintaining maximum pressure on Pyongyang, while Trump, the main architect of the maximum pressure strategy, has softened his stance on North Korea ahead of the summit on June 12.