Making friends: Ms Kim is seen shaking hands with President Moon Jae-in ahead of the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games
South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un's younger sister, during Opening Ceremonies. (Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap)
CNN: Winter Olympics opening ceremony sees historic handshake
Pyeongchang (CNN)Diplomacy and sporting endeavor mixed awkwardly at the spectacular opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, as sworn adversaries sat feet apart while North Korea received a welcome that would have been unthinkable just months ago.
In a ceremony infused with themes of peace and harmony, South Korean President Moon Jae-in twice shook hands with Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. US Vice President Mike Pence, sitting a few seats away in the same VIP booth, looked stony faced as the extraordinary scenes unfolded.
The unprecedented encounter between the two senior Koreans fueled hopes that the Olympics could succeed where a generation of world leaders has failed -- to lay the groundwork, however tentatively, to a process of reconciliation on a peninsula that often appears one wrong move away from nuclear conflict.
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WNU Editor: If I was North Korea's propaganda minister .... that is the picture that I would want. The feeble and subservient U.S.-puppet looking up humbly and in awe to the majestic sister of Korean leader Kim Jong Un. And I am willing to bet that one of the conditions that the North Koreans put on the table for her to show up was that she be positioned exactly where she is positioned in that photo. I know thins because at this high level of international politics .... everything is scripted. Everything.