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We have been closely watching movements of aircraft in and out of North Korea since we reported that foreign aircraft will be part of Kim Jong Un's travel plans to Singapore for the historic summit. In recent hours, a number of North Korean and Chinese aircraft have made their way from Pyongyang to Changi Airport in Singapore, with Kim's arrival aboard one of them having just occurred. The Chinese government, via flag carrier Air China, has supplied North Korea with an Airbus A330 and a Boeing 747. The A330 made a run from Pyongyang to Singapore yesterday before returning back...

Dennis Rodman @dennisrodman 1 year ago June 15 I gave this book "Art of the Deal" to Minister Kim Il Guk in Pyongyang, NK. Hoping everyone reads it before the historic Singapore Summit on June 12. We've got the greatest negotiator of all time @realDonaldTrump to show the world how it's done #Peace #Love pic.twitter.com/ERxXNnR20k 3:24 AM - 9 Jun 2018

A Fox News host has accidentally referred to the highly anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a meeting of “two dictators.” “Fox & Friends” co-host Abby Huntsman made the comment on Sunday as TV footage showed the Republican president landing in Singapore for a summit with Kim on Tuesday. Guest and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci didn’t catch it. But the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman later apologized on air for what she had said. Her gaffe still took off on Twitter.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will open late Saturday a two-day regional security summit attended by Russia, Iran and other allies confronting rising tensions with the US over trade and Washington’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal. Armored vans lined the streets of the coastal city of Qingdao as world leaders arrived Friday for the 18th annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security bloc led by China and Russia. Its member states also include four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics, Pakistan and India. Iran is an observer member. Authorities emptied an entire oceanside swathe of the city —...

Sunday, 10 June 2018 JUST IN: President Donald J. Trump arrives in Singapore, greeted by Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, ahead of his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

SINGAPORE — North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un arrived at this island city-state Sunday ahead of a historic summit with President Trump, bringing with him a extensive security force and a private food supply. Mr. Kim was greeted at the airport by Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, who tweeted a photo of the welcoming. After arriving in a Chinese jet, Mr. Kim traveled in a long motorcade though the city to the luxurious St. Regis Hotel that will serve as Mr. Kim’s base during the summit. Mr. Trump was en route to Singapore and expected to arrive later Sunday. “I am...

North Korea leader Kim scheduled to leave Singapore at 2 p.m. on Tuesday: source SINGAPORE (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is scheduled to depart Singapore at 2 p.m. local time on Tuesday, a source who is involved in the planning of his visit to the city-state for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday. The Tuesday departure plan is tentative, the source said asking for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Kim is scheduled to meet Trump at 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday to talk about ending his country’s nuclear program...

T-shirts, tacos, and tourism: Singapore cashes in on Trump-Kim mania SINGAPORE: From summit-themed burgers and online scalpers peddling “World Peace” medallions and “Peace Out from Lion City” T-shirts, Singaporeans are cashing in on a historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong-un arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Donald Trump After its strange flight path from Pyongyang, North Korean leader’s Boeing 747 has been seen on the runway at Changi Airport It is all systems go in Singapore as the country readies itself for the arrival of United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ahead of their highly anticipated summit in the Lion City on Tuesday. Kim arrives in Lion City The Boeing 747 believed to be carrying Kim Jong-un has landed in Singapore, sources on the ground said. Air China flight CA61 touched down...

Trump-Kim summit: Kim Jong Un believed to be on Chinese private jet to Singapore BEIJING - A Chinese private jet was spotted leaving Pyongyang on Sunday morning, just an hour after it landed in the North Korean capital, according to a flight route-tracking website. Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the plane, operated by Air China, was detected at the airport by Flightradar24 at 8.30am (7.30am Singapore time). It had arrived at the same airport at 7.20am local time, after leaving Beijing leaving Beijing Capital International Airport at 4.18am. It is not known if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

Kim Jong-un due to arrive in Singapore on Sunday afternoon as city state ramps up security Official programme may include meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, sources say, ahead of landmark summit with Donald Trump North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is due to arrive in Singapore around late afternoon on Sunday and will have his own official programme on Monday that could include a meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, sources told the South China Morning Post. If confirmed, this would mean that both Kim and US President Donald Trump would be in Singapore for their historic summit...

Americans should “be rooting” for President Donald Trump at next week’s U.S.-North Korea summit on denuclearization, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday. “I think we should be rooting for [Trump] to succeed with the North Korea negotiations,” Clinton said in an interview with PBS NewsHour managing editor and anchor Judy Woodruff. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are meeting June 12 in Singapore to discuss ending the regime’s nuclear weapons program — a goal that has eluded previous U.S. presidents, including Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Clinton. The summit could be successful even if it doesn’t produce...

With a population about twice the size of North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, Singapore has a GDP per capita that is 38 times larger than North Korea’s. Kim might just be taking notes when he heads to his summit with Donald Trump. Did President Trump choose Singapore as the site for next Tuesday’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un by accident? No way. One of Trump’s wildest cards in his unorthodox path to this meeting with Kim Jong Un is his vision of a prosperous North Korea. As Trump put it last week, “I truly believe North Korea has brilliant...

North Korea has a habit of making others pick up its overseas travel tabs, and experts say either Singapore or South Korea is likely to get stuck with an eye-watering bill for next week’s historic North-US summit in a luxury resort. Preparations are in full swing for next Tuesday’s meeting on an island off Singapore, with authorities readying to lock down the city-state. Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are reportedly set to stay at pricey hotels – although sanctions-hit Pyongyang will almost certainly not pay its own way. “Pyongyang has been conditioned to expect others to pay for...

If former basketball star and de facto diplomat Dennis Rodman travels to Singapore next week for a summit between North Korea and the United States, a cryptocurrency company that lets you buy marijuana may be footing the bill. Rodman's agent confirmed his interest in the Singapore trip to the Washington Post, saying he would provide "moral support" to President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. The former Chicago Bulls player's past trips to North Korea have been paid for by the cryptocurrency company. During his 2017 trip, Rodman was photographed wearing a PotCoin T-shirt and baseball cap, sending the cryptocurrency...

President Trump does not plan to meet with former NBA star Dennis Rodman during his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the White House said Thursday, dismissing speculation that the one-time "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant might attend the historic meeting in Singapore next week. "I don't know what part the best rebounder in basketball has to play in that. He's great on the court, but I think the negotiations should best be left to those who are good at it, and President Trump is the best," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News' "Fox and...

If President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore on June 12 to talk nukes as planned, a fighting force with a centuries-long reputation for courage and fierceness will reportedly be watching their backs. Authorities in Singapore are planning to call on the Gurkha Contingent of the local police to shoulder some of the summit security burden along with the leaders’ personal security, according to Reuters. The unit recently patrolled a different high-level international meeting that some saw as a dry run for the Trump-Kim meeting. ---snip--- Former British soldier Johnny Fenn, who served with...

Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka and Fox News host Sean Hannity will be in Singapore next week during President Trump’s historic summit there with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “I’m delighted to go with Sean Hannity and his team, so we will be there on the ground reporting for Fox and Fox Business,” Gorka told Fox Business on Tuesday. The June 12 summit will take place at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore....

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his delegation are expected to stay at the Fullerton hotel in Singapore for the June 12 summit. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Washington Post reporter John Hudson about why North Korea doesn't want to pay for the accommodations. Transcript: MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: OK, the details involved in arranging this U.S.-North Korea summit - the details are many. But one basic question got our attention. Who will pay for Kim Jong Un's hotel room? If you assumed North Korea foots the bill for their supreme leader's accommodations, think again. The Washington Post's...