{"id":29624,"date":"2018-02-10T20:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/10\/heading-home-pence-insists-no-daylight-on-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:47:42","slug":"heading-home-pence-insists-no-daylight-on-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2018\/02\/10\/heading-home-pence-insists-no-daylight-on-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading home, Pence insists ‘no daylight’ on North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ABOARD AIR FORCE TWO \u2014 Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics proved short-lived, drowned out by images of the two Koreas marching and competing as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as the South appeared to look favorably on warming ties on the Korean Peninsula, Pence insisted Saturday \u201cthere is no daylight\u201d among the United States and allies South Korea and Japan<\/a> in intensifying pressure on the North over its nuclear and missile programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pence spent the days leading up to the Pyeongchang Olympics warning that the North was trying to \u201chijack the message and imagery\u201d of the event with its \u201cpropaganda.\u201d But the North was welcomed with open arms to what South Korean President Moon Jae-in called \u201cOlympic games of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the U.S. that appeared to be the one left in the cold, especially after the sister of the North Korean dictator extended an invitation from her brother for Moon to visit the North. That was the clearest sign yet of an expanding diplomatic opening opposed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\t