There was a lot of back-tracking and deliberation on whether the Trump-Kim summit would take place. Fortunately, the summit taking place as scheduled on the 12th of June 2018 in Singapore at 09:00 AM the local time.
But one question that remains is- WHO is the one picking up the bill?
The US has stated that they are not.
The United States State Department today 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.
The White House on Tuesday announced that the United States-North Korea summit will be held in Singapore’s Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island at 9 a.m. next Tuesday.
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.
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WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE SUMMIT?
At the heart of the summit is whether, and in what detail, Trump and Kim will agree to dismantle the North’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for security guarantees for the regime.
Trump has said he and Kim could also declare a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
“I don’t want to speculate on the timing or what may or may not happen,” Nauert said. “I know that that’s something that the president and this administration certainly supports.”
She refused to discuss the possibility that South Korean President Moon Jae-in will join Trump and Kim in Singapore for such a declaration.
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