FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on December 22, 2017. REUTERS/Mandel Ngan/Pool
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was en route to Asia on Tuesday on a trip that takes him to the Winter Olympics in South Korea where his itinerary underlines Washington's stance that North Korea is trying to use the Games for crude propaganda.
As his guest for the Games opening ceremony on Friday, Pence is bringing the father of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months and died in June 2017 from lack of oxygen and blood to the brain.
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