2008. some of the factors. higher oil prices have a higher economy. north korea will be part of the delegation in pyeongchang. during a stopover in alaska, the vice president said any positives the north get from the games should be kept in confidence. he called it propaganda. he also said he can t rule out a high-level meeting while he s there. we ll be telling the truth about north korea at every stop. we ll be ensuring that whatever cooperation that s existing between north and south korea today on olympic teams does not cloud the reality of a regime that must continue to be isolated by the world community. with regard to any interaction with the north korean delegation, i have not requested a meeting, but we ll see what
reporter: hi, dave. vice president pence made it clear to create a counter narrative when leading the u.s. delegation to the opening ceremony of the pyeongchang winter olympics taking place in a few days here. he wants to at every stop highlight north korean s human rights record. he is bringing along the father of the american university student otto warmbier what died after a year in custody in north korea. and he wants to make it clear if north korea s cooperating by participating in the olympics, it needs to be isolated by the international community to make it give up its nuclear weapons. he added that caveat that the u.s. has not asked for the meeting with the north korean delegation in pyeongchang. it is possible. we will wait and see what happens if they happen to bump into each other in the stadium. in the meantime, the north
there will be a high level north korean delegation and the north korean state media has been firing back at president trump s state of the union speech, with some really insulting terms, calling him an old lunatic as they have in the past, and then going one step further, saying, quote, he cannot deodorize the nasty smell from his dirty body woven with fraud, sexual abuse, and other crimes. what is interesting in this is that aside from the insults that north korean state media really didn t like the fact that president trump highlighted the bad human rights record, that he profiled and brought forward defectors who talked about terrible human rights abuses and north korean state media insisted that the system in north korea is just and dignified. erica? ivan watson in pyeongchang, we ll continue to watch that. ivan, thank you. we are following breaking news out of washington.
christine, one last question. obviously many viewers will be looking behind us and thinking where is the snow? is this a problem? there is not much snow out there. i can t tell you the number of olympic games, paula, where there have been conversations about there s no snow, it s too warm, fog in the mountains. they always seem to pull it off. i think in this case they will as well. but absolutely it is an issue. here we are in the mountains and we re seeing very little snow. reporter: christine brennan, thank you very much. sports analyst. i can tell you it s certainly not too warm here at the moment. it is cold in pyeongchang, not a huge amount of natural snow, but i just spoke this afternoon to one of the snow makers. they say that they believe they have enough for the competition. they actually stopped making it in the mid madle of january say they believe they have enough. rosemary? let s hope so. paula hancocks joining us in pyeongchang, south korea. we will chat with you
the kim regime sending a delegation marching under a joint flag with south korea and female hockey players will play together as one team. a high profile u.s. guest plans to deliver a reality check when he arrives. ivan watson in pyeongchang. he has the latest developments from south korea. ivan. reporter: good morning, ryan. that is right. the joint team, the first with the north and south korea with the female hockey team. they held the friendly on sunday with sweden. the first time the women have played against each other in the past now competing together and against another opponent. they lost 3-1. the coach said they were lumped together by a decision made by the governments. they are trying to make the best of it. they speak virtually different languages of hockey between