Ivanka to attend Olympics ceremony

Published February 22, 2018

SEOUL: Ivanka Trump is set to attend the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea on Sunday in the latest high-profile visit to an event which has been dominated by the North Korea crisis.

“The upcoming visit by adviser Ivanka is intended to celebrate the successful hosting of the Pyeongchang Olympics and highlight the mutual understanding of the South Korea-US alliance,” Noh Kyu-duk, spokesman for the foreign ministry in Seoul, said on Tuesday.

Published in Dawn, February 22nd, 2018

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