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. Not long before Kim arrived, a notice was distributed to the press corps that the filing center would be moved to a separate site for the international press corps at the Cultural Friendship Palace. “Guards were literally right up on us saying no cameras.”The Vietnamese government informed the White House of the request for the press corps to vacate the Melia. However, the press filing center is typically at a different location. Upstairs, the filing center went unused.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 07:26 UTC