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Up close with Kim Jong Un's men at the Trump-Kim summit

Aggressive, overly excited and with scant respect for rules, North Korea's security agents and official media crew at the summit got on everyone's nerves, including The Sunday Times' Deputy Foreign Editor Tan Dawn Wei.

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He was standing expressionless, in his baggy black suit and flat-top, watching us as we put our bags and equipment through the scanner at the Capella Singapore hotel.
I think he was watching us; I can't be sure because he was wearing sunglasses, even though it was 5am and we were inside the hotel's carpark.
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