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‘Spice-Girl Diplomacy:’ North Korean Girl Band’s Beijing Shows Abruptly Cancelled
WSJ ^
| Dec 12, 2015
Posted on 12/12/2015 9:39:26 AM PST by BenLurkin
A highly-anticipated appearance in Beijing by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favorite girl band was abruptly cancelled Saturday, hours before the group was set to perform and with no official explanation given.
The Moranbong band's shows at China's National Center for the Performing Arts have been cancelled "due to some reasons," an employee at the venue told China Real Time Saturday night. A person who had a ticket to one of the band’s invitation-only shows confirmed that he received a cancellation notice late Saturday afternoon.
Short hair, glittery miniskirts, electronic pop music and perhaps even the theme song from the 1976 Hollywood hit "Rocky" were expected to grace the stage of Beijing's top music hall Saturday night as the Moranbong band was set to kick off three days of shows in the Chinese capital.
The group - which was accompanied by an army orchestra, the State Merited Chorus - arrived in Beijing on Thursday and was expected to stay until next Tuesday on what the North Korean official news agency KCNA described as a "friendship visit" to China.
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Headed for Philadelphia no doubt -- to cheer the Swabbies on to victory over the Corps.
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:39:26 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The show was cancelled because
their “minders” found Sum Ting Wong.
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:43:51 AM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:44:18 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: sparklite2
The group - which was accompanied by an army orchestra Some-Young-Guys?
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:45:37 AM PST
by
corlorde
(Merry Christmas!)
To: BenLurkin
“The group has become the most well-known girl band in North Korea”
Sort of like being the best harpist in East St Louis.
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:48:42 AM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:48:55 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
To: corlorde
The army orchestra looks
more army than orchestra.
Maybe, for Korean taste,
there was too much
sax and violins.
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:51:48 AM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: sparklite2
Probably the only girl band in North Korea!
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:52:48 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BenLurkin
"due to some reasons," LOL! How perfectly North Korean.
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:55:43 AM PST
by
SeeSharp
To: BradyLS
I don’t doubt it. The weird thing is there was no way to get tickets to their cancelled performance. Even the Chinese foreign minister was not invited. Love to hear the rest of the story.
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posted on
12/12/2015 9:57:38 AM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: BenLurkin
Pretty cute bunch, though!
Probably the whole lot had plans to defect.
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12/12/2015 9:57:41 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BenLurkin
Looks like now that they have caused their Dear Leader some dissatisfaction, they will be sent to a prison and shot.
Bad news for them.
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posted on
12/12/2015 10:01:12 AM PST
by
Mark was here
("The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam" - Obama.)
To: corlorde
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posted on
12/12/2015 10:01:50 AM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: SeeSharp
Like an explanation from a Democrat politician.
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posted on
12/12/2015 10:05:12 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
I imagine that the appearance was cancelled because of
a death in Kim Jong Un’s family and the necessity for
scheduling a few more deaths.
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posted on
12/12/2015 10:05:53 AM PST
by
Sivad
(Juan Corona would vote for Democrats)
To: BradyLS
“Pretty cute bunch, though!
Probably the whole lot had plans to defect.”
____________________
I think he have a winner!
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
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posted on
12/12/2015 11:35:25 AM PST
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: corlorde
“Some-Young-Guys? “
Sum Yung Gys
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12/12/2015 11:41:05 AM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: BenLurkin
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12/12/2015 11:51:31 AM PST
by
bunkerhill7
((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
12/12/2015 11:56:44 AM PST
by
bunkerhill7
((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Maybe the concert date conflicted with their summary executions.
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posted on
12/12/2015 2:15:08 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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