North Korean official, Ivanka Trump in VIP box at closing ceremony
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A top North Korean official and U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter are in the same VIP box to watch the closing of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Worker's Party Central Committee, sat behind presidential adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump, who was smiling as luminaries were introduced. She did not appear to interact with the North Korean official.
Both stood for South Korea's national anthem.
If they communicated, it would represent unusual direct contact between the White House and the upper echelons of North Korea's government.