Posted on 05/10/2018 9:48:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula out of contention, the small nation of Singapore is a natural choice for the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, analysts say.
Trump announced in a tweet Thursday that the two leaders will meet in Singapore on June 12.
Singapore is familiar ground for North Korea, and the two countries have had diplomatic relations since 1975. The reclusive communist country has its embassy in Singapore's central business district.
The city is "a great location" for the summit, said Tom Plant, who specializes in nuclear and proliferation issues at London's Royal United Services Institute.
"Kim will be on friendly territory, not hostile territory. But he wouldn't be on home turf," Plant said.
Singapore's security forces have considerable experience in protecting VIPs. Single-party rule since independence in 1965 has ensured stability and fostered a security state that is among the world's most efficient, though sometimes decried by civil libertarians as repressive. Located between two Muslim majority nations — Malaysia and Indonesia — with Islamic State group sympathizers, it has effectively checked terrorist threats.....
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I think it would do Kim good to get out of the shadows a bit, and see one of the lights of Asia.
The contrast between Singapore and N. Korea couldn’t be more stark. Both were impoverished by war, yet Singapore is a wealthy, thriving (if not totally democratic) first-world country while NK remains a wreck.
We can book him a flight on Malaysian Air.
“I think it would do Kim good to get out of the shadows a bit, and see one of the lights of Asia.”
I think you are correct. Take him on a tour.
Every 11th Singaporean adult is a millionaire.
Singapore is next door neighbor to Malaysia, where Kim’s brother was assassinated.
RE: We can book him a flight on Malaysian Air.
Singapore is next door neighbor to Malaysia, where Kim’s brother was assassinated.
No. It should be someplace like Iceland, where very remote facilities are possible and electronic espionage by Putin and China can be eliminated. In Singapore, keeping the negotiations between those attending them will be impossible. It may be “western” and generally sympathetic to the U.S. but it is also, like London, a venue of espionage intrigue in its region.
Singapore is a Han Chinese country. Its a single party state like China and the difference between the two its guided by Confucian instead of Marxist values.
The city state is a prosperous and stable country.
My comment has nothing to do with Singapore’s government or how it is run. That - how it is run - has little to do with the fact that it is a venue spy networks all across Asia can be found because of the sort of “neutrality” Singapore displays. The U.S. will have more electronic security measures they will have to make than they would have in a place like Iceland.
So Ho Chi Minh City, Vienna and Manila are out? How about Guam?
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