U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was ready to meet with representatives from North Korea during his visit to the Olympic Games in South Korea earlier this month, but North Korea cancelled at the last minute, the State Department said Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Pence "was ready to take this opportunity" and would have used the meeting to emphasize U.S. concerns about the North's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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