Sentosa — the pirate island where you will meet trump and Kim Jong-UN

Sentosa — the pirate island where you will meet trump and Kim Jong-UN

The first ever meeting between the current US President with the leader of the DPRK will be held in a luxury hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa island, confirmed by the White house. It is an island with a rich and sometimes dark history.

The first ever meeting between the current US President with the leader of the DPRK will be held in a luxury hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa island, confirmed by the White house. The summit is scheduled for June 12, but many of the details of this diplomatic event of the century is not clear.

Himself Donald trump said Tuesday that everything goes smoothly. “We are establishing many relationships, there is a lot of negotiations before you go” — said the President of the United States reporters.

Press Secretary of the White house Sarah Sanders confirmed via Twitter that the summit will be held in a five star hotel, the Capella.

UPDATE: The venue for the Singapore summit between @POTUS and Leader Kim Jong Un will be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island. We thank our great Singaporean hosts for their hospitality.

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) 5 Jun 2018

There will be talks, and live Donald trump and Kim Jong UN will be, apparently, in other places.

Trump, most likely, at the hotel “Shangri-La”, which had already adopted the American presidents, and Kim will probably stay in the hotel “the St. Regis Singapore,” according to the Singapore newspaper the Straits Times.

Both these hotels are on the main island of the country, close to the famous shopping district of the Road of orchids.

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Sentosa is one of the 63 Islands that comprise Singapore. It has an area of 500 hectares.

Now here is a resort of luxury residences, private yacht marinas and Golf courses, but in the past, Singapore was the scene of a rather grim events: the island was the pirates, bloodshed and war.

Pirate Harbor

Singapore became famous in the nineteenth century as British port on the sea route from India to China. But before the British rule Singapore was a thriving trading center, which is often frequented by not only merchants, but also pirates.

Sentosa was then called Pulau Blakan Mati, which translates as “island on the other side of death.”

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