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Cold warrior Pence earns himself an icy reception
Kim Yo Jong (top right), sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, sits alongside President of the Presidium of North Korean Parliament Kim Yong Nam, and behind US Vice President Mike Pence as she watches the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea last friday
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US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence was left out in the cold in South Korea over the weekend, as his efforts to prevent any thaw on the peninsula were given a frosty reception.
Pence spent the days leading up to the Games warning that the North was trying to “hijack the message and imagery of the Olympic Games” with its “propaganda.”
But the North was still welcomed with open arms to what South Korean President Moon Jae In called the “Olympic games of peace.”
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