A blacklisted North Korean general arrived in South Korea today for the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. A spokesman for Seoul's unification ministry said Kim Yong Chol, who led an eight-member high-level delegation crossed the Demilitarized Zone in the morning.
Television footage showed Kim Yong Chol being greeted by Seoul's vice unification minister Chun Hae-sung before getting into a black sedan prepared by the South, while others boarded a bus and a van.
Kim's nomination as the leader of the delegation is controversial in the South, where he is widely blamed for a spate of attacks including the torpedoing of Seoul's Cheonan warship in 2010, with the loss of 46 lives. Kim is blacklisted under Seoul's unilateral sanctions against the North although he is not named in the UN Security Council's measures.
The closing ceremony today will also be attended by US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who is travelling with Korea specialists from the US administration and White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
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