David Wharton: Leaving in peace
by David Wharton, Los Angeles Times
Feb 25, 2018
4 minutes
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - When the 2018 Winter Olympics came to an end this weekend, after the last bobsled crossed the finish line, politics had one more chance to elbow into the picture.
From the start, these Games have been drawn into a decades-old conflict here on the Korean peninsula and shadowed by the nuclear rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
On Sunday, Trump's daughter, Ivanka, was expected to attend the closing ceremony along with North Korean officials in a reprise of Vice President Mike Pence's uneasy appearance at the opener.
"A high-intensity political narrative," said Michael Heine, director of the
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