Vice President Mike Pence headed the American delegation at the Games' inaugural ceremony, which also was attended by Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong. The State Department later disclosed that she and Pence were scheduled to meet, which would have been the first such high-level contact between American and North Korean officials in decades, but the North Koreans pulled out at the last minute in protest of U.S. criticisms.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 23, 2018 22:30 UTC