Trying out for “Joker” role?
- Vice-president believes Pyongyang’s presence ‘a charade’
- The Observer view: the Winter Olympics and North Korea
Vice-president Mike Pence will stop North Korea “hijacking” the Winter Olympics, an aide said on Sunday, by using his own presence at the Games to remind the world “everything the North Koreans do at the Olympics is a charade to cover up the fact that they are the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet”.
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