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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s bill for his stay at the swanky St. Regis Hotel during his landmark summit with President Trump is being picked up by Singapore, the island country’s foreign minister said on Monday.

“It’s hospitality that we would have offered them, and as Chairman Kim said yesterday, he would have liked to have come to Singapore anyway, with or without the summit,” Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told the BBC. “We would, of course, have offered hospitality.”

He said that the cost is all part of the $20 million Singapore is spending to host the meeting.

“It’s hospitality that I would have provided for him anyway,” he said of Kim and members of his delegation. “And it’s all within the budget that the prime minister has specified, anyway. So that’s not a consideration at all.”​

Kim and Trump arrived in Singapore hours apart on Sunday for their much-anticipated meeting Tuesday to discuss the regime’s nuclear arsenal.

Kim reportedly has settled into the Presidential Suite on the palatial St. Regis’ top floor that offers sweeping views of the city, artwork by some of the world’s greatest artists and a price tag of up to $9,000 a night.

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