Unconfirmed - North Koreans Execute members of the Unhasu Orchestra

This is how I stumbled across the story while checking out a Classical Music blog I enjoy reading:

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Here is the most detailed report I can find I can find on the extermination of the Unhasu Orchestra in Pyongyang, North Korea (ed: See link 2). At least a dozen musicians, including the Orchestra's Leader, Mun Kyong-jin, and others were machine-gunned in a public execution on 20th August. News is only just emerging. The Unhasu Orchestra is not the oldest or largest western orchestra in North Korea but it's extremely prominent. Orchestras all over the world are used in big public galas, and the Unhasu was a "real" orchestra of serious musicians, although it was pulled out for state occasions and played for dictators. Last March, Myun-whun Chung conducted the Unhasu Orchestra and the Radio France Philharmonic at the Salle Pleyel, Paris...

1. http://classical-iconoclast.blogspot...rth-korea.html



2. http://www.newsring.fr/actualite/100...ne-petite-amie (French)



There is also a story on the Daily Mail claiming it had something to do with an alleged sex tape (And lots of burningly stupid comments.)



3. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-sex-tape.html



Either way I am quite simply apalled.



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