The lesser partner in a hotel-based tryst needs the dominant one to pay the hotel bill.

"The U.S. is trying to find a discreet way to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel during the summit" (WaPo).

At an island resort off the coast of Singapore, U.S. event planners are working day and night with their North Korean counterparts to set up a summit designed to bring an end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program....

The prideful but cash-poor pariah state requires that a foreign country foot the bill at its preferred lodging: the Fullerton, a magnificent neoclassical hotel near the mouth of the Singapore River, where just one presidential suite costs more than $6,000 per night.