'Where is Singapore?' - Trump-Kim summit a PR coup for tiny city-state


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  • Thursday, 14 Jun 2018

FILE PHOTO: A TV screen shows a news report about the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un at a media center for the summit, in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un strolling by revellers at a rooftop bar the night before an unprecedented meeting with President Donald Trump circulated around social media sites, U.S. citizens started asking 'Where is Singapore?'.

'Singapore', the tiny Southeast Asian city-state that played host to nuclear talks earlier this week, was the most searched term on internet search engine Google in the United States on Monday with over 2 million hits.

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