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North to send another senior delegation for Olympic closer

North to send another senior delegation for Olympic closer | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2018 file photo, Kim Yo Jong, top right, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, sits alongside North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam, and behind U.S. Vice President Mike Pence as she watches the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. North Korea, one of the most patriarchal of societies around, deployed Kim Yo Yong and singer Hyon Song Wol to spearhead its Olympic diplomacy campaign. The sister’s arrival generated a good deal of serious reporting, juxtaposed with the presence of Mike Pence and his wife. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of – South Korea’s Unification Ministry says North Korea will send a high-level delegation led by Kim Yong Chol, a senior party official suspected of leading two deadly attacks on the South in 2010, to the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

The eight-member delegation from North Korea is expected to stay for three days. There was no announcement of any plan for the North Koreans to meet with a U.S. delegation to Sunday’s closing ceremony headed by Ivanka Trump.

A U.S.-North Korea near-miss caused controversy at the opening ceremony of the games, when U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence and his wife were seated in the VIP box with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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