Watch: Ivanka Trump arrives in South Korea to attend closing ceremony of Winter Olympics
Ivanka Trump arrives in South Korea for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Ivanka Trump has arrived in Seoul, South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of one of the biggest sporting events, Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and also to support the team the USA
Ivanka Trump has arrived inSeoul,South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of one ofthe biggest sporting events, Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and also to support the team the USA. The event, whose theme revolves around promoting peace, started with the arrival of anorthern guest, Kim Yo Jong, younger sister of North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un. The team USA currently stands at rank fourth with 21 medals in total.
A top North Korean general will also be present at the event. The concluding ceremony is scheduled to take place on February 25.
"We're very very excited to attend the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, to cheer for Team USA and to reaffirm our strong and enduring commitment with people of the Republic of Korea", she said after arriving at Incheon airport on a commercial flight.
The White House said Trump had asked his eldest daughter -- who is also one of his top advisers -- to travel to Pyeongchang to lead up a "high-level delegation".
The North will send an eight-member delegation Sunday headed by Kim Yong Chol, a top general who oversees inter-Korean relations for the ruling Workers' Party, Seoul's unification ministry said.
The Games have seen a flurry of cross-border diplomacy, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister and US Vice President Mike Pence both attending the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang earlier this month.
But officials in both Seoul and Washington say there will not be a meeting between Ivanka Trump and Kim Yong Chol.