SINGAPORE: Singapore will spend about $20 million to host the historical summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong revealed as of late.
Singapore is without doubt one of the few nations that experience diplomatic members of the family with both the United States and North Korea.
"It's our contribution to an international endeavour which is in our profound interest," Lee told journalists on the massive media centre the city-state had built to deal with the giant call for.
Over 2,500 journalists are covering the summit, the first between a sitting United States President and a North Korean leader.
Lee stated the price of the summit was $20 million Singapore.
"It is a cost we are willing to pay," he stated, including that safety prices would account for about part of that determine.
The summit has the possible to set trends on the Korean Peninsula on a brand new path, Lee was quoted as pronouncing by means of Straits Times newspaper.
The summit is a plus for Singapore, he stated.
"It gives us publicity. The fact that we have been chosen as the site of the meeting - we did not ask for it, but we were asked and we agreed - says something about Singapore's relations with the parties, with America, with North Korea, also our standing in the international community," he stated.
Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim met with Singapore Prime Minister Lee, hours after arriving here.
Kim was greeted at Singapore's Changi airport by means of Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan.
Balakrishnan, an Indian-origin flesh presser, had previous visited Pyongyang and held talks with senior North Korean leaders to tie-up the details of the summit.
According to pictures released by means of the Singaporean government, Kim arrived on an Air China airplane. Accompanying him was Kim Yong Chol, who previous this month met with President Trump at hand deliver a letter from Kim.
Trump the day gone by declared that the young dictator had a "one-time shot" to deliver his nation in from the cold with the summit.
President Trump will arrive later as of late. The US hopes the summit will kick-start a process that at last sees Kim give up nuclear weapons.
Kim and Trump will sit down down for talks at nine am (6:30 am IST) on Tuesday on the Capella Hotel on the hotel island of Sentosa.
Singapore has been used before for high-profile diplomatic occasions. In 2015, the leaders of China and Taiwan held historical talks within the city-state - their first in additional than 60 years.
Singapore is without doubt one of the few nations that experience diplomatic members of the family with both the United States and North Korea.
"It's our contribution to an international endeavour which is in our profound interest," Lee told journalists on the massive media centre the city-state had built to deal with the giant call for.
Over 2,500 journalists are covering the summit, the first between a sitting United States President and a North Korean leader.
Lee stated the price of the summit was $20 million Singapore.
"It is a cost we are willing to pay," he stated, including that safety prices would account for about part of that determine.
The summit has the possible to set trends on the Korean Peninsula on a brand new path, Lee was quoted as pronouncing by means of Straits Times newspaper.
The summit is a plus for Singapore, he stated.
"It gives us publicity. The fact that we have been chosen as the site of the meeting - we did not ask for it, but we were asked and we agreed - says something about Singapore's relations with the parties, with America, with North Korea, also our standing in the international community," he stated.
Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim met with Singapore Prime Minister Lee, hours after arriving here.
Kim was greeted at Singapore's Changi airport by means of Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan.
Balakrishnan, an Indian-origin flesh presser, had previous visited Pyongyang and held talks with senior North Korean leaders to tie-up the details of the summit.
According to pictures released by means of the Singaporean government, Kim arrived on an Air China airplane. Accompanying him was Kim Yong Chol, who previous this month met with President Trump at hand deliver a letter from Kim.
Trump the day gone by declared that the young dictator had a "one-time shot" to deliver his nation in from the cold with the summit.
President Trump will arrive later as of late. The US hopes the summit will kick-start a process that at last sees Kim give up nuclear weapons.
Kim and Trump will sit down down for talks at nine am (6:30 am IST) on Tuesday on the Capella Hotel on the hotel island of Sentosa.
Singapore has been used before for high-profile diplomatic occasions. In 2015, the leaders of China and Taiwan held historical talks within the city-state - their first in additional than 60 years.
Singapore to spend $ 20 million for Trump-Kim summit: PM Lee
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