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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As a goodwill gesture.
And to let him feel the lure of the wealth that awaits him if he pulls his head out of his ass.
Trivial pursuit from the queen of compost. This is news in context of the real story? What a sad joke.
Nah:
The NK’s will construe the payment effort as symbolic, as setting the tone for the substance that will play out over the course of the summit.
The payment *IS* the negotiation. It will define what ensues, will establish the narrative:
“Ailing NK needs stuff, and The Rich USA will understand and WILL provide.”
They can afford g-d-damned nuclear missiles, they can damn well pay for HOTEL ROOMS.
NO SHOWING UP AND **GETTIN’ STUFF**
Don’t fall for it, Trump, I KNOW you know.
+1
In return for dismantling his nukes, we should pop for his hotel suite. And let him have whatever he wants from the mini-bar.
Trump could build a hotel there, but June 12 is a bit aggressive for such a project.
Yeah WaPo blowing this out of proportion IMO. Slush fund at DOE/NNSA and DOD or Trumps own pocket can fund this 3 day event even if it lasts that long.
Let ‘em counterfeit enough money to pay for it!
They’ve been making, literally making, dollars for years!
even if its a one-story pre-fab? LOL
Zactly..!
The rooms ARE the negotiation, apparently.
It is ALWAYS political with the insane Tree Bark Soup set:
“We realllly wanna help you, and we know you wanna help us, so we know that in pre- pre- negotiation that you’ll EAGERLY spring for 30% of your fissile material for 50 rooms. WE KNOW IT..! RIGHT..?!”
Sorry, NO FREEBIES, paradise dwellers..!
I’d rather “pay for hotel bills” than get nuked. Since I’m in the preferred nuke zone.
Apparently you have not considered that paying for Un’s sh*t is almost guaranteed to make you MORE likely to get nuked than NOT paying.
“When you give up your lunch money to the bully, he likes you much MORE..!”
Eh....no he *doesn’t*.
“The rooms ARE the negotiation, apparently.”
Only for small minds.
Show them how big this deal could be and buy him a hotel.
Buy it and deed it over time him.
Send Trump’s personal 757 to Pyongyang to give him and his entourage a ride. Gold toilet and all.
“I’m in the nuke zone” is not an argument.
It’s a CLAIM, sure.
And I believe you.
But it’s not a negotiation strategy.
re: my #13
That’s how deals are made.
LOL! That’s JUST how they negotiate!
The more interesting part of the story is the transport- NK planes can’t make it?
Heck, give him, the country, a present of a CEO-type jet... if he lets Lear manufacture there.
The US has a long and checkered tradition of making deals with the Norks.
Deals which SUCK.
Send them a few pallets of shrink wrapped $100 bills and let him pay for whatever hotel he wants to stay in.
Send Un NO bills, as he is globally famous for being the best counterfeiter on planet Earth, and has been for decades.
A good portion of ALL his diplomatic personnel are tasked with using his funny money to buy stuff —luxury goods, in many cases— and bringing it home for political reasons.
The norks like the $100 bill and Japan’s ichi man satsu, the 10,000 yen note; they print both like crazy.
I’m sitting on a bottle of 1978 French Beaujolais I’ll donate to the cause. Get ‘er done, lol.
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