President Moon to dine with Ivanka Trump, meeting between U.S. and North Korean delegates unlikely
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The First Daughter of the United States, Ivanka Trump, is somewhere over the Pacific Ocean at this hour... flying to South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
North Korea is sending another high level delegation to PyeongChang,... but the chances of the U.S. and North Korean delegates meeting are said to be slim to none.
Our Blue House correspondent Hwang Hojun starts us off.
With the grand finale of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics just a couple of days away, Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, will arrive in South Korea on Friday, leading the U.S. delegation.
The delegation includes the White House press secretary, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea and a U.S. senator.
A senior adviser to her father, Ivanka Trump is scheduled to dine with President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House soon after she arrives.
Her meeting with President Moon is garnering much attention as she will likely be carrying a personal message from President Trump that may mention the possibility of dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea.
A high-level delegation from the North will once again head to the South on Sunday,.... also to attend the closing ceremony.
Kim Yong-chol,... the Vice Chair of the Workers' Party of Korea's central committee, will lead the eight-member delegation.
Kim's visit to South Korea is stirring controversy because he's suspected of being the mastermind of two deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010 - the sinking of the Cheonan warship, killing 46 South Korean soldiers,.... and the shelling of Yeonpyeong-do Island, killing four South Koreans.
So, while their stays will overlap,... the prospects of them meeting, let alone having direct contact, seems highly unlikely; especially as both the Blue House and the White House have ruled it out.
Dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea was incorrectly anticipated by some during the opening ceremony of the quadrennial event, in which U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister Kim Yo-jong attended.
It was later reported that a secret meeting between the U.S. and the North Koreans was canceled by Pyongyang at the last minute.
On Thursday local time, Pence slammed Kim Yo-jong, while giving an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference, saying, quote, "the sister of Kim Jong-un is a central pillar of the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet."
He was unapologetic on the fact that he stayed seated when the North Korean athletes entered the stadium, saying the U.S. quote "doesn’t stand with murderous dictatorships."
Hwang Hojun, Arirang News.
The First Daughter of the United States, Ivanka Trump, is somewhere over the Pacific Ocean at this hour... flying to South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
North Korea is sending another high level delegation to PyeongChang,... but the chances of the U.S. and North Korean delegates meeting are said to be slim to none.
Our Blue House correspondent Hwang Hojun starts us off.
With the grand finale of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics just a couple of days away, Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, will arrive in South Korea on Friday, leading the U.S. delegation.
The delegation includes the White House press secretary, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea and a U.S. senator.
A senior adviser to her father, Ivanka Trump is scheduled to dine with President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House soon after she arrives.
Her meeting with President Moon is garnering much attention as she will likely be carrying a personal message from President Trump that may mention the possibility of dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea.
A high-level delegation from the North will once again head to the South on Sunday,.... also to attend the closing ceremony.
Kim Yong-chol,... the Vice Chair of the Workers' Party of Korea's central committee, will lead the eight-member delegation.
Kim's visit to South Korea is stirring controversy because he's suspected of being the mastermind of two deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010 - the sinking of the Cheonan warship, killing 46 South Korean soldiers,.... and the shelling of Yeonpyeong-do Island, killing four South Koreans.
So, while their stays will overlap,... the prospects of them meeting, let alone having direct contact, seems highly unlikely; especially as both the Blue House and the White House have ruled it out.
Dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea was incorrectly anticipated by some during the opening ceremony of the quadrennial event, in which U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister Kim Yo-jong attended.
It was later reported that a secret meeting between the U.S. and the North Koreans was canceled by Pyongyang at the last minute.
On Thursday local time, Pence slammed Kim Yo-jong, while giving an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference, saying, quote, "the sister of Kim Jong-un is a central pillar of the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet."
He was unapologetic on the fact that he stayed seated when the North Korean athletes entered the stadium, saying the U.S. quote "doesn’t stand with murderous dictatorships."
Hwang Hojun, Arirang News.