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[Published: Wednesday February 21 2018]

 N Korea cancelled Pence Olympic meeting, says US

 
Washington 21 Feb (ANA) - US Vice-President Mike Pence was due to meet North Korean officials at the Winter Olympics last week, US officials have said, but the North Koreans pulled out at the last moment.
 
Mr Pence was in South Korea for the opening of the Winter Olympics. A spokesman said he was scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, among others. It would have been the first official interaction between North Korea and the Trump administration.
 
North Korea has made no comment on the US reports.  State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said when the "possibility arose" of a brief meeting with the North Korean delegation, Mr Pence "was ready to take this opportunity to drive home the necessity of North Korea abandoning its illicit ballistic missile and nuclear programs".
 
"At the last minute, DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] officials decided not to go forward with the meeting. We regret their failure to seize this opportunity," she said in a statement.(ANA)
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