At Games reception, a hopeful dessert and a hasty exit

South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during the Olympic Opening ceremony reception in Pyeongchang, South Korea February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - At an Olympic dinner reception designed to break the ice between two nations still technically at war, the dessert said it all.

Dark chocolate tempered in the shape of barbed wire lay over a map of the Korean peninsula rendered in thin blue chocolate, a representation of the heavily militarized border that separates Games host South Korea and its old enemy in the North.