Kim Jong Un checks into hotel — and the press is ushered out
What happens when the authoritarian ruler of North Korea checks into a hotel teeming with American journalists filing round-the-clock news reports?
Kim was staying at the Melia hotel tower in the heart of the city, but the hotel also happened to have been booked by the White House as the filing center for the traveling press corps to cover the summit. The press filing center on the seventh floor of the hotel featured a cavernous work space with blue and gold carpeted room, hundreds of chairs at dozens of long wooden tables with name tags for major American media outlets, and water bottles and extension cords for the print and broadcast equipment necessary to cover the major media event.
Margaret Talev, a White House reporter for Bloomberg News who is staying a the Melia, wrote on Twitter that security was tight in the hotel as Kim arrived: Guests were cleared from the lobby and window shades were pulled down.
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