An Envoy Who Can Rival ‘North Koreas Ivanka

WASHINGTON — When the sister of Kim Jong-un made her historic visit to the Winter Olympics in South Korea weeks in the past, announcing nothing but commanding noisy press insurance, the South Korean information media quickly called him” “NortKorea’s Ivank”.”

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Now, President Trump is sending the actual Ivanka.

The query is whether or not Ms. Trump, with her style enterprise glamour, can counter the information media narrative set using a mysterious North Korean woman, Kim Yo-jong, a director of her totalitarian authorities” propaganda and agitation department. White House officers balk at any parallel between the narrator’s sister and, in addition to that, the daughter. But the contrast is plain, if unfair, given their family pedigrees.

And Ms. Trump might also gain by any other comparison: to Vice President Mike Pence, who sat near Ms. Kim at some stage in the hole right of the Olympics and appeared unable to strike a similar chord as she did with South Koreans. He later neglected out on an assembly with North Korean officials after they canceled at the remaining minute. Administration officials are aware that Ms. Trump, who will arrive in South Korea on Friday to observe the ultimate rite of the Games, may want to clean some of the tensions that flared all through the visit, even if they insist that the motive of her experience.

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