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Kim Jong-un 'moved' by K-pop peace concert in Pyongyang - Published North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was deeply moved by a concert in Pyongyang featuring South Korea artists, the North's state news agency KCNA reports. It said the leader's heart had swelled when he saw the North Korean audience respond enthusiastically to the performances of famous K-pop groups. He said the musical exchange was a significant occasion giving the appearance of a united country. The concert came amid improving relations between the Koreas. The North sent performers to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this year, and the leaders of the two countries are due to hold a summit on the border later this month. The performers are in Pyongyang for two shows, the first South Korean musical delegation to visit in more than a decade. The first concert, titled Spring is Coming, took place on Sunday evening local time at the 1,500-seat East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. The delegation, which combines K-pop, rock and other genres, is set to perform again on Tuesday. Mr Kim is the first North Korean leader to attend a performance by an artistic group from the South, said South Korea's official news agency, Yonhap. His sister Kim Yo-jong and the country's nominal head of state Kim Yong-nam are also said to have attended. Kim Jong-un "showed much interest during the show and asked questions about the songs and lyrics", the South's Culture Minister Do Jong-hwan told journalists. Rare apology Meanwhile, one of North Korea's top officials, Kim Yong-chol, has apologised to South Korean reporters who had hoped to cover the performance after all but one were barred from entering the Grand Theatre, South Korean Yonhap news agency reports. Mr Kim, who is in charge of affairs with South Korea and head of the North's national intelligence organisation, said that he thought that "there might have not been sufficient co-operation between the chairman's security guards and concert organisers" at the event. "It was wrong to hinder the free media coverage and filming," he said, in what Yonhap reported as "a rare apology". Mr Kim offered an apology on behalf of North Korean authorities, saying that the restriction was "not intentional", Yonhap reported. Military exercise Mr Kim has agreed to hold summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump. He met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week during his first foreign trip as leader. The third inter-Korean summit - there were also meetings in 2000 and 2007 - is due to be held on 27 April. No date has been set for the US-North Korean summit. Meanwhile, the US and South Korea have begun their annual military drills, which have been scaled down compared with previous years as both countries prepare for talks with North Korea. Although nearly 300,000 South Korean troops and 24,000 American troops will take part, the drill will be a month shorter than usual and will not involve nuclear submarines. In the past, the drills have infuriated North Korea but correspondents say that this time Pyongyang is keeping relatively quiet. Mr Kim reportedly told visiting South Korean officials that he understood that the exercises had to go ahead.
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किमद्वारा 'के-पप' कलाकारको प्रदर्शन अवलोकन उत्तर कोरियाली नेता किम जोङ-अन र उनकी श्रीमतीले प्योङ्याङमा विरलै भएको एक समारोहमा दक्षिण कोरियाका 'के-पप' कलाकारको प्रदर्शन हेरेका छन्। किमले दक्षिण कोरियाका कलाकारको प्रदर्शन हेरेपछि अरूले जस्तै ताली बजाएका थिए। कार्यक्रम सकिएपछि उनले कलाकारहरूसँग कुराकानी गर्दै तस्बिर खिचेको समाचारहरूमा जनाइएको छ। कलाकारहरूको दशककै पहिलो भ्रमण विभाजित कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपका दुई देशका नेताहरूबीच शिखर वार्ताको तयारी चल्दै गर्दा भएको हो। दुई कार्यक्रमहरूमा गरी प्योङ्याङमा ११ वटा सांगीतिक कार्यक्रम गर्ने योजना छ। भ्रमण यसअघि उत्तर कोरियाले दक्षिण कोरियाको प्योङ्चाङमा शीतकालीन ओलिम्पिक्समा आफ्ना कलाकारहरू पठाएको थियो। महिनौँको तनावपछि दुई कोरियाबीचको सम्बन्ध सुधार हुँदै गर्दा कलाकारहरूको भ्रमण भएको हो। 'स्प्रिङ् इज। कमिङ्' अर्थात् 'वसन्तको आगमन हुँदैछ' नाम दिइएको सांगीतिक कार्यक्रम आइतवार प्योङ्याङको ग्रान्ट थिएटरमा भएको दक्षिण कोरियाली सञ्चारमाध्यमले जनाएका छ्न्। 'के-पप' र 'रक' विधा समेटिएको अर्को सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रम मङ्गलवार हुने कार्यक्रम छ। दक्षिण कोरियाको योन्हाप समाचार संस्थाका अनुसार दक्षिण कोरियाली कलाकार समूहको कार्यक्रम हेर्ने किम उत्तर कोरियाका पहिलो नेता हुन्। उपस्थिति कार्यक्रममा किमकी बहिनी किम यो-जोङ र प्रभावशाली नेता किम योङ-नाम पनि उपस्थित थिए। किमले "कार्यक्रमलाई निकै अभिरुचिपूर्वक हेरेको र गीत र तीनको अर्थबारे प्रश्न गरेको" दक्षिण कोरियाका संस्कृति मन्त्री दो जोङ-ह्वानले पत्रकारहरूलाई बताएको रोएटर्स समाचार संस्थाले जनाएको छ। यसै महिनाको सुरुमा उत्तर कोरियाली दर्शकले दक्षिण कोरियाली तेक्वान्दो टोलीको प्रदर्शन हेरेका थिए। तर त्यहाँ किम उपस्थित थिएनन्। प्योङ्याङका कार्यक्रममा दक्षिण कोरियाको प्रसिद्ध समूह 'रेड भेल्भेट' र गायिका सेओह्युन र चोइ जिन-हीले प्रदर्शन गर्ने कार्यक्रम छ।