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The Air China Boeing 747 that Kim Un took to Singapore on Sunday is the 'private jet' of Chinese Premier Li Keqian Kim sought help from China due to safety concerns regarding the condition of his jet. ...an 80's model.

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In response to a question by BBC on whether Singapore paid for the North Korean

contingent’s hotel stay, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said:

"It’s hospitality that we would have offered them, We would of course have

offered hospitality. So, yes we do.... And it’s all within the budget that the Prime Minister

has specified, anyway.

(20 million...half is for security alone for this event)