SEOUL: North Korea has no intention to meet US officials during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South, Pyongyang's state media said Thursday -- but did not rule it out.

"We have no intention whatsoever to meet US authorities during our visit to the South," Cho Yong-Sam, a senior foreign ministry official, was quoted as saying by the North's official KCNA news agency.

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