No contact was made between a visiting U.S. delegation and a group of North Korean officials in the South over the past few days, a U.S. embassy official with knowledge of the events told NK News on Monday.

Both Washington and Pyongyang sent delegations to South Korea to attend Sunday’s closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

Leading the U.S. delegation was Special Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump, who was accompanied by White House Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Senator Jim Risch, and Allison Hooker, who is director for Korea at the National Security Council (NSC).

The DPRK delegation, in