백악관 "6•12 북미정상회담, 센토사섬 카펠라호텔서 개최"<br /><br /> Next week, the hotly anticipated Pyongyang-Washington summit will be held.<br />Naturally, preparations for the talks are picking up steam.<br />More details are gradually being revealed, including... the venue for the long awaited meeting.<br />The Capella Hotel in Singapore has been chosen to host the historic event.<br />Kim Mok-yeon gets us up to speed with the developments. <br /> <br /> White House press secretary Sarah Sanders revealed in a tweet on Tuesday that the talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island on June 12th.<br />The White House official also thanked the Singaporean hosts for their hospitality. <br />The post came just around a day after Sanders confirmed that the two leaders had agreed on the time of their first meeting.<br /><br /> "And I can also tell you the schedule for -- tentatively -- for that first meeting will be on June 12 at 9 a.m. Singapore time and take place June 11, 9 p.m. east coast time."<br /><br />The Capella Hotel is where high ranking officials from the U.S. and North Korea have been holding working-level discussions on the upcoming talks.<br />The hotel is also one of two places local and foreign experts had been suggesting the talks could held at, along with the Shangri-La hotel. <br /> The Singapore government issued a public order establishing special zones around both hotels, so access to the areas will strictly be controlled from June 10th to the 14th.<br /> Speaking to reporters at an Oval Office event on Tuesday, U.S. President Trump said that plans for what will be the first meeting between a serving U.S. president and a North Korean leader, are well on track. <br /><br /> "North Korea looks like it's moving along very well, a lot of -- a lot of relationship being built; a lot of negotiation going on even before the trip. But it looks like it's coming along fine. We'll see what happens, but very important. It'll be a very important couple of days."<br /><br />The upcoming Kim-Trump meeting was called off by the U.S. President late May<br />before being put back on last week after a top North Korean official delivered Trump a letter from Kim Jong-un. <br /> President Trump said that he expects a positive result in discussions with North Korea but spoke of the possibility of additional meetings to follow for the two sides to reach an agreement.<br /><br />Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News. <br />
