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December 23, 2024

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How the U.S. should respond to Kim Jong Un’s summit offer

Washington must avoid undermining inter-Korean progress

Just over a week ago, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence - a man who won't have dinner with a woman without his wife present, left an American football game because players were kneeling in protest, and received a personal lecture from the cast of "Hamilton" - looked more uncomfortable than he ever had before.

The reason: as he watched the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he was sitting just a few feet away from Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong.

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