Joseph Alessi was taken aback when two North Korean music students played “The Bluebells of Scotland”, a trombone piece, for him at the Pyongyang Conservatorium of Music this week...
Two former American officials, returning from North Korea after Tuesday’s New York Philharmonic concert and meetings with Pyongyang’s top nuclear negotiator, say they are convinced the hard line state desires improved relations with the United States...
For at least 90 minutes in a theatre in Pyongyang it was possible for those attending a concert by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to believe that 55 years of cold-war hostility were coming to an end...
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra's concert in Pyongyang doesn't represent a ``diplomatic coup'' and relations will only improve when North Korea discloses its nuclear programs, a White House spokeswoman said...
The New York Philharmonic arrived in Seoul on Wednesday, ending their historic visit to communist North Korea for a concert beamed round the world in a powerful moment of musical diplomacy..
Former US defence secretary William Perry said Tuesday's New York Philharmonic concert in North Korea "might just have pushed us over the top" in resolving the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programme...
The history of the Korean Peninsula may be at a momentous turning point with Monday's inauguration of conservative former business leader Lee Myung-bak as president of South Korea, to be followed on Tuesday night by an epic performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang...
he New York Philharmonic performed ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' and North Korea's anthem for Pyongyang's communist elite Tuesday - a historic feat of musical diplomacy aimed at improving ties with the isolated nuclear power that considers the U.S. its mortal enemy...
