Kim-Trump accreditation: A hot ticket to nowhere

Euromoney was an accredited reporter at the Trump-Kim North Korea-US summit in Singapore in June.

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It was quite the spectacle – although perhaps not what you might expect.

Over 3,000 journalists applied for accreditation to cover the summit, which took place in the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island.

However only a handful of journalists approved by the two participating countries’ embassies were allowed anywhere near the hotel or president Trump’s later press conference, which effectively meant the White House press pool and a few members of North Korea’s not-particularly-independent press corps.

The others were all herded into the Formula One pit lane building and a windowless room filled with several hundred televisions, on which the proceedings were broadcast.

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