Trump and Kim to meet at Sentosa Island

The first meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S. president will take place at the five-star Capella Hotel on the Singaporean island of Sentosa

MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
10km 6 miles

Capella Hotel: 112-room resort designed by British architect Norman Foster, features grand colonial-style buildings

Cable car
Sentosa Station
Universal Studios theme park
Brani Island
Sentosa Cove
SENTOSA ISLAND
Sentosa Golf Club
Capella Hotel
Jun 10-14: “Special event area”
Special zone with stricter security checks
Singapore Strait
500m 1,640ft
Marina

Island only accessible via cable car, monorail, pedestrian causeway and vehicle tunnel

ISLAND OF MANY NAMES
19th Century: Singapore established as British trading post. Sentosa called Pulau Blakang Mati, Malay for “island behind death”

1942: Singapore falls to Japanese after British colonial forces surrender. Renamed Syonan – “Light of the South” – it becomes prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied troops

Island’s beach is site of thousands of summary executions as ethnic Chinese community is purged of anti-Japanese element

1972: Island renamed Sentosa – “peace and tranquility” – as part of Singaporean government drive to turn it into tourist destination


Sources: Singapore Government, BBC, The Guardian  Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS