KIM BOPS ALONG AS K-POP STARS PERFORM IN NORTH
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju were among the hundreds in Pyongyang who watched South Korean K-pop singers perform in the North for the first time in more than a decade as tensions thaw.
It was the first time a North Korean leader had attended a South Korean performance in the capital. Mr Kim was seen clapping in tune to some of the songs and later took photographs with the performers after the show.
Yesterday’s two-hour concert, along with a separate taekwondo performance earlier in the day, comes as South Korea’s engagement with North Korea has continued to grow since Mr Kim expressed his willingness for more contact between the two countries. Athletes from North and South Korea marched under a unified peninsula flag at the opening ceremony at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in February and the significant thaw in the interKorean relations has led them to set a date for their first summit in more than a decade on April 27.
The Koreas are technically still at war after the 1950-1953 conflict ended with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.