{"id":298550,"date":"2018-06-10T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298550"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:12:34","slug":"donald-trump-and-kim-jong-un-arrive-in-singapore-for-historic-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/donald-trump-and-kim-jong-un-arrive-in-singapore-for-historic-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump And Kim Jong Un Arrive In Singapore For Historic Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-298551 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dtkm-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US President Donald Trump on Sunday arrived in Singapore ahead of his summit with North Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump and Kim are due to hold talks &#8211; at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, in which Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear arsenal will top the agenda. Trump has earlier described this meeting as a &#8220;one-time shot&#8221; at peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier on Sunday, the North Korean leader arrived at Singapore\u2019s Changi airport and was welcomed by Singapore\u2019s foreign minister, Vivian Balakrishnan. The latter posted a picture of him shaking hands with Kim with a message on Twitter: \u201cWelcomed Chairman Kim Jong Un, who has just arrived in Singapore.\u201d Later Kim travelled through central Singapore in his armoured Mercedes-Benz limousine under heavy security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singapore\u2019s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong told reporters, that \u201cfrom our point of view, it\u2019s important that the meeting take place and that the meeting sets developments on a new trajectory \u2014 one that will be conducive to the security and stability of the region.\u201d The PM in his earlier interview had said that his government is spending about $15 million in total on hosting the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Sunday arrived in Singapore ahead of his summit with North Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un. Trump and Kim are due to hold talks &#8211; at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, in which Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear arsenal will top the agenda. Trump has earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2180,2181,2182,2183,1923,2184,1346,2185,2186,1925,50,51,2187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299628,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298550\/revisions\/299628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}