Trump-Kim Summit to Be Held on Singapore’s Sentosa Island

Lawmakers want Trump to report on North Korea nuclear programme

The much-anticipated meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will take place at a hotel on the Singaporean island of Sentosa, BBC reported the White House as confirming.

The 12 June summit was called off two weeks ago by Trump but has since been salvaged after a flurry of contacts between the two sides.

Trump said on Tuesday that plans were “moving along very nicely”.

The US wants Kim to commit to giving up his nuclear weapons.

But it is unclear exactly what is on the table for the discussions in Singapore. Trump has suggested the first meeting will kick off a longer process of negotiations, calling it a “get-to-know-you situation”.

“A lot of relationships being built, a lot of negotiations going on before the trip,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s very important - it’ll be a very important couple of days.”

The summit would represent the first ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed on Twitter that the summit would take place at the five-star Capella Hotel.

But it appears that the two leaders will stay elsewhere. Trump will likely be at the Shangri-La Hotel, where US presidents have stayed before, while Kim will probably stay at the St Regis Singapore, the Straits Times newspaper reports. The two hotels are on the main island, near the famous Orchard Road shopping strip.

The 500-hectare island, only a short distance from the main island, is home to luxury resorts, private marinas and plush golf clubs.

Meanwhile, Republican and Democratic members of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday that would require President Donald Trump’s administration to provide a detailed report on North Korea’s nuclear program to set a “baseline” for progress on talks with Pyongyang.

The bill, seen by Reuters before its public release, is one of a series of efforts by members of Congress to have some say in negotiations ahead of Trump’s summit next week in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Members of Congress have expressed concern that Trump is so eager for a deal that he will concede too much.