Kim Jong Un and his wife watched a South Korean K-pop group perform in North Korea for the first time in over 10 years
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- The South Korean K-pop group Red Velvet performed before North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife in the North's capital of Pyongyang.
- This was the first time a South Korean group had come to the North to perform in over 10 years.
- The K-pop performance was part of a larger South Korean delegation in Pyongyang that included taekwondo demonstrators and other singers.
- The North and South have begun to grow closer in recent months, and teams from the two countries marched under a single banner at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju were among the hundreds in Pyongyang on Sunday watching South Korean K-pop singers perform in the North for the first time in more than a decade as tensions between the two countries thaw.
It was the first time a North Korean leader had attended a South Korean performance in the capital. Kim Jong Un was seen clapping in tune to some of the songs and later took photographs with the performers after the show.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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