How a Southeast Asian city-state came to host the Kim-Trump summit
by Jessica Meyers, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2018
3 minutes
BEIJING - Mongolia flagged its neutrality. Sweden offered its expertise. South Korea knew a spot. In the end, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un settled on the tiny, orderly island of Singapore to hold a historic summit June 12 that could peel open the world's most reclusive and threatening country.
Yes, a city-state. In Southeast Asia. With palm trees.
This tropical locale of 5.5 million people has always been an anomaly, one
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