SEOUL: Top South Korean musical acts including a Ok-pop girlband are set to hold an extraordinary concert in North Korea Sunday night in the newest reconciliatory gesture before an extraordinary inter-Korean summit.
Sunday's tournament — which would be the first concert by way of South Korean artists in the North for greater than a decade — comes as a diplomatic thaw quickens on the peninsula after months of military tensions.
The 120-member staff — 11 musical acts as well as dancers, technicians and taekwondo artists — flew to Pyongyang on Saturday to perform concerts on Sunday as well as on Tuesday.
South Korean singers held a practice session Sunday afternoon at the 1,500-seat East Pyongyang Grand Theatre the place the concert is ready to begin at 7 pm (1030 GMT), in line with South Korean pool footage.
The taekwondo athletes are also expected to degree a efficiency in Pyongyang on Sunday before acting along side the North's practitioners on Monday.
The rapprochement was once precipitated by way of the South's Winter Olympics, to which the North's leader Kim Jong Un despatched athletes, cheerleaders and his robust sister as an envoy.
Kim followed up by way of agreeing to a summit with the South's President Moon Jae-in, and reportedly to any other with US President Donald Trump. The young leader additionally met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing remaining week all through his first in another country go back and forth.
The inter-Korean summit, the 3rd after meetings in 2000 and 2007, will be hung on April 27. No date has been set for the US-North Korean summit even though it is expected before the tip of May.
In any other signal of eased tensions, annual US-South Korean military exercises which got under manner in the South Sunday will remaining for only one month compared to a couple two months usually.
This year's drills feature fewer strategic guns corresponding to a nuclear-powered airplane provider, Seoul's military has stated. The deployment of such robust weaponry all through previous drills has regularly drawn an indignant response from the North.
The maximum closely-watched staff due to perform Sunday is Red Velvet, part of the South's hugely standard Ok-pop phenomenon that has taken audiences in Asia and past by way of typhoon in contemporary decades.
The five-member girlband is understood for a mix of upbeat digital track, stylish fashion and high-voltage choreography.
Joy, one of the crucial 5 contributors, would leave out the go back and forth to Pyongyang due to her TV drama capturing time table, their agency has stated.
Despite the North's isolation and strict curbs on unauthorised foreign tradition, backed up by way of prison phrases, Ok-pop has turn into increasingly more standard there due to flash drives smuggled around the border with China.
Other Seoul stars to join the concerts come with Cho Yong-pil, a singer who held a solo sell-out concert in Pyongyang in 2005.
Kim's overdue father and longtime ruler, Kim Jong Il, was once known to be a fan of the 68-year-old singer.
Another famed singer, Choi Jin-hee, is ready to perform for the fourth time in the North and to sing "Maze of Love" -- a pan-peninsula hit and one of the crucial overdue Kim's favourites.
It was once unclear whether Kim Jong Un would make an look at the concerts. President Moon attended a concert by way of North Korean singers in Seoul to mark the hole of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February.
"I hope that something similar will happen during this concert held in response (to the North's Seoul concert)," Do Jong-hwan, Seoul's tradition minister leading the delegation, informed newshounds in Pyongyang.
Sunday's tournament — which would be the first concert by way of South Korean artists in the North for greater than a decade — comes as a diplomatic thaw quickens on the peninsula after months of military tensions.
The 120-member staff — 11 musical acts as well as dancers, technicians and taekwondo artists — flew to Pyongyang on Saturday to perform concerts on Sunday as well as on Tuesday.
South Korean singers held a practice session Sunday afternoon at the 1,500-seat East Pyongyang Grand Theatre the place the concert is ready to begin at 7 pm (1030 GMT), in line with South Korean pool footage.
The taekwondo athletes are also expected to degree a efficiency in Pyongyang on Sunday before acting along side the North's practitioners on Monday.
The rapprochement was once precipitated by way of the South's Winter Olympics, to which the North's leader Kim Jong Un despatched athletes, cheerleaders and his robust sister as an envoy.
Kim followed up by way of agreeing to a summit with the South's President Moon Jae-in, and reportedly to any other with US President Donald Trump. The young leader additionally met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing remaining week all through his first in another country go back and forth.
The inter-Korean summit, the 3rd after meetings in 2000 and 2007, will be hung on April 27. No date has been set for the US-North Korean summit even though it is expected before the tip of May.
In any other signal of eased tensions, annual US-South Korean military exercises which got under manner in the South Sunday will remaining for only one month compared to a couple two months usually.
This year's drills feature fewer strategic guns corresponding to a nuclear-powered airplane provider, Seoul's military has stated. The deployment of such robust weaponry all through previous drills has regularly drawn an indignant response from the North.
The maximum closely-watched staff due to perform Sunday is Red Velvet, part of the South's hugely standard Ok-pop phenomenon that has taken audiences in Asia and past by way of typhoon in contemporary decades.
The five-member girlband is understood for a mix of upbeat digital track, stylish fashion and high-voltage choreography.
Joy, one of the crucial 5 contributors, would leave out the go back and forth to Pyongyang due to her TV drama capturing time table, their agency has stated.
Despite the North's isolation and strict curbs on unauthorised foreign tradition, backed up by way of prison phrases, Ok-pop has turn into increasingly more standard there due to flash drives smuggled around the border with China.
Other Seoul stars to join the concerts come with Cho Yong-pil, a singer who held a solo sell-out concert in Pyongyang in 2005.
Kim's overdue father and longtime ruler, Kim Jong Il, was once known to be a fan of the 68-year-old singer.
Another famed singer, Choi Jin-hee, is ready to perform for the fourth time in the North and to sing "Maze of Love" -- a pan-peninsula hit and one of the crucial overdue Kim's favourites.
It was once unclear whether Kim Jong Un would make an look at the concerts. President Moon attended a concert by way of North Korean singers in Seoul to mark the hole of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February.
"I hope that something similar will happen during this concert held in response (to the North's Seoul concert)," Do Jong-hwan, Seoul's tradition minister leading the delegation, informed newshounds in Pyongyang.
South Korea pop stars to perform in rare North Korea concert
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