Mick Hartley

As a last act of crude defiance at the close of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the North Koreans sent the hard-line General Kim Yong-chol to lead their delegation. This was the man who, as head of the Reconnaissance Bureau, a military intelligence agency, almost certainly oversaw the sinking of the Cheonan in 2010, with a loss of 46 South Korean lives, and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island later that year.

Predictably, South Korea's President Moon was only too happy to greet him:

He arrived in the South with families of the victims and conservative MPs trying to block his entry.

But the South Korean government welcomed his visit.

There could hardly be a more appropriate ending to this whole sorry Olympic saga, where, as I noted before, it's been all give by the South and all take by the North. Sending the man responsible for the deaths of South Korean servicemen was a typically cynical and provocative move. Equally typical was Moon's supine response.

According to Mr Moon's office, he [Kim Yong-chol] said North Korea was "very willing" to hold talks with the US.

It added that the North had "agreed that inter-Korea talks and North-US relations should improve together".

And, if President Moon only knew, there are Nigerians with large inheritances which are, unfortunately, difficult to access because of government restrictions…..