Posted on 02/09/2018 6:14:47 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-un's sister sits just 6 FEET from Trump's VP as tensions loom over Olympics
KIM JONG-UN’S sister sat just six feet from Donald Trump’s vice president Mike Pence as nuclear tensions loomed over the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympics.
By Henry Holloway / Published 9th February 2018
North Korea’s most powerful woman was sitting behind the VP as she sat with the South Korean president Moon Jae-in.
Kim’s Yo-jong shook hands with the leader him before taking her seat in the VIP box to watching incredible ceremony.
The 30-year-old is the youngest daughter of previous North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, and is a major force in Pyongyang.
She is the first member of the Kim family to visit the South since the Korean War.
Despite being dubbed the “Peace Olympics”, nuclear tensions continue to loom over the Korean Peninsula.
Pyongyang and Seoul marched together as a unified team, much to the delight of the Kim Yo-jong who waved with glee.
She is due to have a sit-down luncheon tomorrow with President Moon along with the rest of the North Korean delegation – including the man sat next to her Kim Yong-nam.
US officials have remained suspicious over Kim’s intentions as the North cosies up to the South over the Olympics.
Vice president Pence reportedly snubbed Kim Yong-nam at a pre-opening ceremony dinner in the hours before heading to the stadium.
He allegedly left after just five minutes after realising North Korean delegates were in attendance.
Trumps number two has talked tough as he arrived in the South, pledging to ramp up “maximum pressure” after the Olympics.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
I wonder how the two groups of athletes get along?
North Koreans are required to wear the Kim Jong Un pin, South Koreans are not.
North Koreans can be put to death if they criticize the Kims, South Koreans...it matters not.
So, do they converse with each other? Can the South Koreans say “Dude, your leader is whacked, he killed his own nephew!”?
I’d love to be a fly on the wall!
With 229 cheerleaders..(minders).. for 22 athletes. I doubt they’ll say or attempt anything more than the accepted ‘voice’ of N.Korea’s Leader. They aren’t rooming together..so opportunity likely isn’t going to be for ‘conversation.
As one of the few NK leaders that is not travel sanctioned, he has a critical role in meeting with other world leaders and thereby finding ways around the economic sanctions.
Although his role is largely ceremonial while in NK, the fact that he is still alive, surviving all the purges through the years, and 90, attests to his political acumen.
He should have stayed home period, and then our athletes acting like brats. I will say one thing, if PDJT is grooming him to be his successor, he has given him some large piles of pony poop to shovel and deal with it stuff that will give him elephant skin to deal with the gig in 8 yrs. This was definitely one of them. This dance is worse than Thanksgiving with the crazy relatives...
Well put.
I hope VP encountered enough thankful S. Korean people outside the government, N. Korean defectors, and respectful US athletes to have made it worthwhile. Good grief!
We are so lucky to have him and his lovely wife represent us. Prayers that they be rewarded for all they go through!
God knew what He was doing when Pence was picked to be Trump’s VP.
Interesting, thanks!
Ed
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