Just over a week ago, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence – a man who won’t have dinner with a woman without his wife present, left an American football game because players were kneeling in protest, and received a personal lecture from the cast of “Hamilton” – looked more uncomfortable than he ever had before.

The reason: as he watched the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he was sitting just a few feet away from Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong.

Pence stood stiffly in the U.S. Olympics team’s signature red, white, and blue jacket – eyebrows furrowed, lips tight, staring straight