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Article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Article date: March 3, 2008
COLUMN: EDITORIAL FOOTNOTE; IN OUR OPINION
The visit by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to North Korea strikes a rare, if minor chord of cordiality in the relationship between the United States and the Stalinist dictatorship. In the more than 50 years since the end of the Korean War, contacts between North Korea and the outside world have been few, and under the careful control of the government there. The sounds of the Star Spangled Banner being played in Pyongyang seems the stuff of a fantasy novel.
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