Posted on 06/01/2018 8:34:24 PM PDT by Mariner
SINGAPORE — At an island resort off the coast of Singapore, U.S. event planners are working day and night with their North Korean counterparts to set up a summit designed to bring an end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
But a particularly awkward logistical issue remains unresolved, according to two people familiar with the talks. Who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel stay?
The prideful but cash-poor pariah state requires that a foreign country foot the bill at its preferred lodging: the Fullerton, a magnificent neoclassical hotel near the mouth of the Singapore River, where just one presidential suite costs more than $6,000 per night.
The mundane but diplomatically fraught billing issue is just one of numerous logistical concerns being hammered out between two teams led by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin and Kim’s de facto chief of staff, Kim Chang Son, as they strive toward a June 12 meeting.
After weeks of uncertainty, President Trump called off the summit last week, blaming “open hostility” from North Korea. But a flurry of diplomacy across two continents got the meeting back on track, and Trump announced Friday that he will attend as initially planned.
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Bill the bloody PRC.
Crack pipe out tonight?
Fly him over a pallet of cash. It worked out well for Iran! So the Post is wondering how Trump can come up with money to pay for a hotel room, and Obama can fly over a billion dollars in cash to Iran, and nobody asks how? You’d almost think there was bias in journalism.
WaPo. Dirtbags extraordinaire!
Was this a leak? Who is their source? Or are they spying again. Maybe it was those cell towers that lead to that spy house where Obama rarely lives.
Not for free.
Pay for his hotel...in return for one of his nukes.
Under the sanctions in place it's illegal for a corporation to do business with North Korea.
You realize what the Post is doing here, right?
Don’t fall for this obvious trap.
I was just kicking around semi humorous ideas of how to get it done in an outside-the-box Trumpian way.
Perhaps a GoFundMe campaign? I’m sure he’d be able to raise the money easily.
If Trump put it on his AMEX, you know Rocket Man would be drinking from the mini bar, ordering pay per view, getting massages, etc... That fat ass would probably even open the pack of $15 macadamia nuts.
Put it on the Underhill’s bill.
John Hudson was the highly respected reporter who pulled this story.
[editor] John, I need 1000 words on Kim’s hotel dilemma, Trump as villain. On my desk by 5p
[John] Oh, thank you thir
Clinton Foundation
Motel 6...
... or maybe a pup tent and sleeping bag.
Now it’s all Neil Cavuto can talk about this morning. Trying to find Kim a dumpy hotel to “save taxpayer money”.
“Crack pipe out tonight?”
What the hell was that?
An error. Obviously. Oops. Sorry
If and when (crickets) the Clintonistas Cartel Cash is seized after they’re convictions (crickets crickets) we should use that cash to fund corrective actions to Bubbafucco’s and the Hildebeast’s sharing nuclear weapons data with rouge states ..... (crickets crickets crickets) ....... yeah I know.
Stay Safe !
One night stay..Payment is one nuclear bomb.
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