They say sport unites, but surely not even the 2018 Winter Olympics could bring US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un together could it?
United States Vice President Mike Pence was in attendance Friday night for the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, and while President Donald Trump did not make the trip, a Trump impersonator crashed the party along with a Kim Jong Un look alike.
A pair of impersonators were "shown out by security staff" after arriving at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony.
"We're getting along great," the Kim Jong-un impersonator said. "We wanted to surprise everyone and bring world peace and then we’re being escorted out by security guards, which I think is really unfair. Doesn’t everyone want peace? Is my sister getting the same treatment?"
"And Dennis Rodman has confirmed this and he’s met both of them personally," he added, referring to the former NBA player who has met with Kim multiple times.
"So let’s start talking and stop with all the missiles and everything else," the impersonator said. "We want peace, everybody wants peace, nobody wants war."
And while this seemed far fetched, there was an olive branch of sorts extended to North Korea with leader Kim Jong-un’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, making an unprecedented visit to the South.
She joined South Korean President Moon Jae-in, his wife and VIPs in their dignitary box to watch the opening ceremony and was granted the honor of officially announcing the start of the 2018 Olympic Games.
It was part of an extraordinary diplomatic push by the North aimed at using the Olympics to ease tensions with Seoul and bolster unity between the two Koreas after a year that has been marked by escalating fears of war and increasing angry rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington.
The pair added prior to the Opening Ceremony that they were simply trying to send a message.
The Trump impersonator was identified as American Dennis Alan, while the Kim Jong Un impersonator is from Australia.
The pair was photographed by a wire service giving each other a fist bump before getting the boot.
