of course, the north korea and south korean abilities. there is nothing like that as far as we know this year. certainly they are trying to downplay so it doesn t provoke north korea at a time when the relations are thawing. speaking of thawing relations, we saw sunday night kim jong un going to a concert of k-pop stars of singers in pyongyang for a rare concert. he met with the k-pop stars. this pop culture is usually smuggled into north korea and they are punished if found watching it. they punish its people for what kim jong un watched last night. we cannot under score the culture event. the same time we see the sporting diplomacy really making great changes between north and south korea. dave. paula hancocks. i know a huge red velvet fan.
the fact that president moon jae-in really has the most incredible balancing act to maneuver. at this point he has managed to bring north korea to the pyeongchang winter olympics. he has managed to have this sporting diplomacy that his sister sitting down with him and talking. north koreans saying they are willing to talk to the united states. and on the other side, you the united states maintaining its policy of wanting to make sure that denuclearization is at the top of the agenda when it comes to those talks. but the south korean president is trying to say let s lower the threshold. let s at least sit down and talk. something he said was meeting with china s vice premier, yu yangdong. what happens after the olympics? there will be u.s. south korean military drills which every year anger pyongyang.
the u.s. is insisting north korea give up its nuclear weapons. that s something pyongyang has said it won t do. so where do they go from here? well, it s a key question, rosemary. how do you keep the momentum going from this quite remarkable sporting diplomacy we ve seen here. but once the athletes go home, once the paralympics is over, then of course you have the u.s. south korean military drills which anger pyongyang every year. i spoke to the south korean unification minister on sunday and asked him how do you make sure that those drills don t derail this momentum that is building. and he said he was hoping over the next couple of days to be able to talk to the north korean delegation still in south korea to make sure that that wasn t going to be the case. now, as you say, ivanka trump has left south korea now. she was asked many times by reporters about north korea. many times she declined to be drawn on it. but she did say one thing about north korea, and here it is. we are 50