US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence was left out in the cold in South Korea over the weekend, as his efforts to prevent any thaw on the peninsula were given a frosty reception.

Pence spent the days leading up to the Games warning that the North was trying to “hijack the message and imagery of the Olympic Games” with its “propaganda.”

But the North was still welcomed with open arms to what South Korean President Moon Jae In called the “Olympic games of peace.”