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| Ivanka Trump Arrives in South Korea for Games and Diplomacy | Ivanka Trump Arrives in South Korea for Games and Diplomacy |
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| SEOUL, South Korea — Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter, arrived in South Korea on Friday, starting a highly anticipated trip two weeks after North Korea’s leader sent his sister here on a mission seen as an attempt to undermine Seoul’s alliance with Washington. | |
| Ms. Trump, who holds the title of senior White House adviser, plans to have dinner with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, the capital. She will then lead an American delegation to Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, where the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics will be held on Sunday. | Ms. Trump, who holds the title of senior White House adviser, plans to have dinner with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, the capital. She will then lead an American delegation to Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, where the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics will be held on Sunday. |
| White House officials said Ms. Trump would be cheering on American athletes at the Olympics and helping to cement Washington’s alliance with South Korea. She does not intend to meet with a North Korean delegation that will attend the closing ceremony, they said. But her presence at the event with the North Koreans is bound to generate intense interest. | White House officials said Ms. Trump would be cheering on American athletes at the Olympics and helping to cement Washington’s alliance with South Korea. She does not intend to meet with a North Korean delegation that will attend the closing ceremony, they said. But her presence at the event with the North Koreans is bound to generate intense interest. |
| Ms. Trump’s arrival was covered live on South Korean television. She emerged from Incheon International Airport to face a bank of television cameras that captured her every move. | Ms. Trump’s arrival was covered live on South Korean television. She emerged from Incheon International Airport to face a bank of television cameras that captured her every move. |
| Her arrival comes two weeks after the surprise visit by Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, created something of a sensation in South Korea, overshadowing Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to the Olympics at the same time. Ms. Kim met with Mr. Moon and delivered a surprise offer: her brother’s invitation to visit the North for a summit meeting. | Her arrival comes two weeks after the surprise visit by Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, created something of a sensation in South Korea, overshadowing Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to the Olympics at the same time. Ms. Kim met with Mr. Moon and delivered a surprise offer: her brother’s invitation to visit the North for a summit meeting. |
| Despite South Korean hopes that Ms. Kim and Mr. Pence would use the Games as an opportunity for their own diplomacy, the two ignored each other in Mr. Moon’s V.I.P. box at the opening ceremony, where they sat just feet apart. South Korean officials arranged a later meeting between the two, American officials said, but the North Koreans pulled out at the last minute. | Despite South Korean hopes that Ms. Kim and Mr. Pence would use the Games as an opportunity for their own diplomacy, the two ignored each other in Mr. Moon’s V.I.P. box at the opening ceremony, where they sat just feet apart. South Korean officials arranged a later meeting between the two, American officials said, but the North Koreans pulled out at the last minute. |
| With Ms. Kim having seized the media spotlight as the first immediate member of the North’s ruling family to set foot in South Korea, Ms. Trump’s visit is expected to restore some luster to the American side of the unspoken propaganda contest. | With Ms. Kim having seized the media spotlight as the first immediate member of the North’s ruling family to set foot in South Korea, Ms. Trump’s visit is expected to restore some luster to the American side of the unspoken propaganda contest. |
| Local media has already been touting similarities between the women, calling Ms. Kim “North Korea’s Ivanka” because of the influence the two are purported to have over the heads of state in their respective families. | Local media has already been touting similarities between the women, calling Ms. Kim “North Korea’s Ivanka” because of the influence the two are purported to have over the heads of state in their respective families. |
| South Korean officials are intent on not seeing a repeat of the tense standoff between Ms. Kim and Mr. Pence at the opening ceremony, while playing down speculation about an encounter between Ms. Trump and North Korean officials. | South Korean officials are intent on not seeing a repeat of the tense standoff between Ms. Kim and Mr. Pence at the opening ceremony, while playing down speculation about an encounter between Ms. Trump and North Korean officials. |
| They said they did not intend to arrange a meeting between Ms. Trump and the North Korean delegation. Such a meeting would have placed Ms. Trump at the center of the bitter standoff between the United States and North Korea. | They said they did not intend to arrange a meeting between Ms. Trump and the North Korean delegation. Such a meeting would have placed Ms. Trump at the center of the bitter standoff between the United States and North Korea. |
| One obstacle to such a meeting is that the North Korean delegation is headed by Kim Yong-chol, a former spy chief who is widely blamed in the South for the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship and some of the North’s alleged hacking attacks against the South and the United States in recent years. Mr. Kim has been on a United States sanctions list since 2010. | One obstacle to such a meeting is that the North Korean delegation is headed by Kim Yong-chol, a former spy chief who is widely blamed in the South for the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship and some of the North’s alleged hacking attacks against the South and the United States in recent years. Mr. Kim has been on a United States sanctions list since 2010. |
| United States officials said that Ms. Trump would not meet with any North Korean defectors during her visit, as Mr. Pence did in an attempt to draw attention to the North Korean government’s many human rights abuses. | United States officials said that Ms. Trump would not meet with any North Korean defectors during her visit, as Mr. Pence did in an attempt to draw attention to the North Korean government’s many human rights abuses. |