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Winter Olympics 2018: Pence skips dinner with N Koreans - BBC News
Opinions on how this makes the U.S. look?
Personally, I think it was a bad move. You have South Korea and Japan both showing courtesy and openly associating with the delegation from the North during a historic event. And the U.S. walks out. When South Korea and Japan choose to engage the North for any opening towards peace regardless of what the U.S. thinks, that is a sign of deteriorating influence.
First the Trump administration further derails the middle east peace process, and now it appears to be doing the same on the Koran peninsula. Why do you think this is happening, and to what end? What is Trumps strategy here? I have some ideas but am curious to hear others.
Please, no "BECAUSE MAGA!" type responses.
Winter Olympics 2018: Pence skips dinner with N Koreans – BBC
US Vice-President Mike Pence has skipped a dinner at which he was due to share a table with North Korea's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam.
Mr Pence briefly encountered Mr Kim but they tried to avoid directly facing each other, Yonhap news agency reports.
Later South Korean President Moon Jae-in shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
The Games are taking place amid tension over North Korea's nuclear programme.
What happened at the dinner?
Mr Pence and Kim Yong-nam were being hosted by President Moon before the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang.
But the US vice-president left the reception venue after five minutes, South Korea's Yonhap said.
While Mr Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe both shook hands with Mr Kim, Mr Pence did not, South Korean officials said.
Opinions on how this makes the U.S. look?
Personally, I think it was a bad move. You have South Korea and Japan both showing courtesy and openly associating with the delegation from the North during a historic event. And the U.S. walks out. When South Korea and Japan choose to engage the North for any opening towards peace regardless of what the U.S. thinks, that is a sign of deteriorating influence.
First the Trump administration further derails the middle east peace process, and now it appears to be doing the same on the Koran peninsula. Why do you think this is happening, and to what end? What is Trumps strategy here? I have some ideas but am curious to hear others.
Please, no "BECAUSE MAGA!" type responses.