SINGAPORE: Nobel Prize successful anti-nuclear campaign team ICAN has introduced to pay for the cost of the ancient summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, including the hotel invoice for the impoverished state's leader.
The be offering comes after a media report that the cash-strapped North could have bother bearing the cost of its leader's stay in Singapore and the massive delegation of security and enhance personnel for the assembly scheduled for June 12.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which gained final 12 months's Nobel Peace Prize, said it was once prepared to use its prize cash to pay for any accommodation or assembly house needed to make the summit a good fortune.
"The Nobel Peace Prize included a cash prize and we are offering funds from the prize to cover the costs for the summit, in order to support peace in the Korean Peninsula and a nuclear-weapon-free world," ICAN reliable Akira Kawasaki said.
"This is a historic meeting, and once in a generation opportunity" to assist identify a world free of the specter of nuclear weapons," Kawasaki told Reuters via telephone from Tokyo.
Kawasaki heads the Tokyo-based Peace Boat, one in every of ICAN's 10 global guidance teams.
The intention to spend the prize cash is in step with the paintings the group has executed to foyer for the U.N. Treaty at the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was once followed via 122 nations but now not any of the nuclear weapons states or North Korea.
"It's now not about paying for luxurious rooms for the leader of the DPRK or somebody, that is not our intention," Kawasaki said. DPRK is short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the formal name of North Korea.
Kim Chang Son, the de facto leader of personnel for the North Korean govt, was once noticed at The Fullerton five-star hotel in Singapore final week right through a discuss with to meet U.S officials to figure out the logistics for the summit.
The Fullerton was once North Korea's lodging of selection, the Washingotn Post has reported. The presidential suite might set the federal government back via at least eight,000 Singapore greenbacks ($6,000) an evening, it said.
Kim's go back and forth to Singapore, which will be the furthest he will have travelled as leader, poses logistical demanding situations such as the most probably use of Soviet-era plane to carry him and his limousine, as well as dozens of security and different personnel.
Singapore, a small but wealthy Southeast Asian city-state, has said it will endure the cost of the summit to do its phase to verify a a success assembly.
The Nobel Prize award differs from 12 months to 12 months, and in 2017, the prestigious prize was once set at 9 million Swedish crown ($1.02 million). ($1 = eight.8014 Swedish crowns)
The be offering comes after a media report that the cash-strapped North could have bother bearing the cost of its leader's stay in Singapore and the massive delegation of security and enhance personnel for the assembly scheduled for June 12.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which gained final 12 months's Nobel Peace Prize, said it was once prepared to use its prize cash to pay for any accommodation or assembly house needed to make the summit a good fortune.
"The Nobel Peace Prize included a cash prize and we are offering funds from the prize to cover the costs for the summit, in order to support peace in the Korean Peninsula and a nuclear-weapon-free world," ICAN reliable Akira Kawasaki said.
"This is a historic meeting, and once in a generation opportunity" to assist identify a world free of the specter of nuclear weapons," Kawasaki told Reuters via telephone from Tokyo.
Kawasaki heads the Tokyo-based Peace Boat, one in every of ICAN's 10 global guidance teams.
The intention to spend the prize cash is in step with the paintings the group has executed to foyer for the U.N. Treaty at the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was once followed via 122 nations but now not any of the nuclear weapons states or North Korea.
"It's now not about paying for luxurious rooms for the leader of the DPRK or somebody, that is not our intention," Kawasaki said. DPRK is short for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the formal name of North Korea.
Kim Chang Son, the de facto leader of personnel for the North Korean govt, was once noticed at The Fullerton five-star hotel in Singapore final week right through a discuss with to meet U.S officials to figure out the logistics for the summit.
The Fullerton was once North Korea's lodging of selection, the Washingotn Post has reported. The presidential suite might set the federal government back via at least eight,000 Singapore greenbacks ($6,000) an evening, it said.
Kim's go back and forth to Singapore, which will be the furthest he will have travelled as leader, poses logistical demanding situations such as the most probably use of Soviet-era plane to carry him and his limousine, as well as dozens of security and different personnel.
Singapore, a small but wealthy Southeast Asian city-state, has said it will endure the cost of the summit to do its phase to verify a a success assembly.
The Nobel Prize award differs from 12 months to 12 months, and in 2017, the prestigious prize was once set at 9 million Swedish crown ($1.02 million). ($1 = eight.8014 Swedish crowns)
Anti-nuke Nobel winner ICAN offer to pay Trump-Kim summit
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