Sources from Seoul stated that Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka will come face to face with a top North Korean general at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony in the South this weekend. Accordingly the Pyeongchang Games have become a venue for geopolitics as much as sports as the nuclear armed North mounts a charm offensive analysts say is intended to loosen the sanctions regime against it and weaken the alliance between Seoul and Washington.
Meanwhile the White House said Donald Trump had asked his eldest daughter who is also one of his top advisers to travel to Pyeongchang to lead up a "high level delegation." Moreover the 36 year old businesswoman will be joined by press secretary Sarah Sanders and is going in part because "she is something of a winter sports enthusiast".
An official said the North will send an eight member delegation headed by Kim Yong Chol, a top general who oversees inter-Korean relations for the ruling Workers' Party. Moreover Seoul's unification ministry said in a statement Kim Yong Chol's presence is a demonstration of how Pyongyang is testing the limits of the multiple different sanctions imposed on it over its banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
