North Korea sponsored out of secret meeting with Pence, U.S. says -

A pre-planned assembly between vice chairman Mike Pence and North Korean delegates at some stage in the PyeongChang Olympic video games were given derailed after North Korea backed out of the “secret” meeting hours earlier than it became set to take place, the vp's workplace instructed NBC information on Tuesday night.
Pence had completely intended to sit down with the North Koreans at the Olympics, along with Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yong Nam, the regime’s nominal head of nation.
Apparently displeased with Pence strengthening relations with South Korea and Japan within the time leading as much as the assembly, as well as his continued condemnation in their nuclear software and human rights violations, the North Koreans pulled out, according to Pence's office.
“North Korea dangled a meeting in hopes of the vp softening his message, which might have ceded the arena stage for their propaganda at some stage in the Olympics. alternatively, the vice chairman met with defectors who escaped tyranny, hosted Fred Warmbier whose son become essentially murdered by means of North Korea, talked about their atrocious document on human rights and enslavement of hundreds of hundreds in their people, spoke approximately their adversarial plans with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and announced a new round of tough economic sanctions have been at the manner,” Pence's chief of team of workers, Nick Ayers.
America and North Korean members of the family have been at an over the past yr with leaders of each countries taking non-public jabs at each other. Trump calling Kim "little rocket man" and Kim calling Trump an "vintage lunatic" and a "dotard" in return.