President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will come together from opposite ends of the world next week for their historic bilateral summit, but when they arrive here on Sunday, their accommodations will be less than a mile apart.
Two people familiar with the planning said the president and his entourage will stay at Singapore’s Shangri-La hotel, where Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attended a global security conference earlier this month and where locals have seen security activity increase in recent days. The vicinity was designated a “special event area” by the Singaporean government last Sunday.
Meanwhile, the North Korean delegation is expected to have secured rooms at the St. Regis, where local media spotted employees installing additional security cameras around the luxury hotel’s entrance earlier this week.
A spokesperson for the St. Regis declined to confirm whether the hotel would soon be hosting Kim and would not provide a reason for the beefed up security. The five-star resort is “just a 10 minute walk away” from the part of town where Trump’s hotel is located, a bellhop told the Washington Examiner. – READ MORE
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