Posted on 11/17/2006 3:52:53 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
(LEAD) N. Korea to hold rock festival in March: report
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea, under international censure for trying to arm itself with nuclear weapons, plans to host an international rock music festival next year, the country's main radio station said Friday.
The Voice of Korea said in a report that the "Rock for Peace" festival will be held in Pyongyang, the capital, on March 1, a major national holiday marking an anti-Japanese public uprising in 1919.
The North's radio station carried the same report in its English Web site, with an announcement that Western musicians, including U.S. rockers, are eligible to participate and play a gamut of rock music including heavy metal.
"This is the very first time that North Korea allows Western musicians in the heart of DPRK territory to play capitalist popular music," the English report said.
DPRK, or Democratic People's Republic of Korea is North Korea's official name.
It's highly unusual that North Korea, a closed communist society, has decided to hold the festival which will expose its hungry people to what it called "decadent" American music.
The North's report said there still will be "few restrictions and conditions" for participants in the festival, insisting that the lyrics should not praise "war, sex, violence, murder, drug, rape, non-governmental society, imperialism, colonialism, racism, anti-DPRK, and anti-socialism." North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world. Its entire social system is strictly geared to uphold and praise leader Kim Jong-il and his late father, Kim Il-sung.
The country is under U.N. sanctions over its nuclear weapons test on Oct. 9. It claims that its move to arm itself with nuclear weapons is to thwart Washington's attempt to topple its communist system.
samkim@yna.co.kr (END)
North Korea having a rock festival.....for some reason I'm picturing people throwing rocks
That's because they know who their friends are. If anyone wants proof that the entertainment industry is a bunch of liberal commies supporting a murderous deranged dictator, look for who signs up.
"Play some Dead!"
I think Pink Floyd would be the appropriately themed music for North Korea. The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon...
Gonna need LOTS of cowbell.
Maybe this will be Rage Against The Machine's big reunion show.
Depends on the coke supply...
Gee, maybe Rick Warren can go and host.
North Korea and Rock and Roll just don't go together.
Will Neil Young sing "Keep on Rockin' in the UnFree World?"
without a doubt the FAGS are in charge of this!
Skeet Surfin'...
Skeet Surfin'...
If everybody had a 12 gauge
With a sufboard too.
You see em shootin and surfin'
From here to Malibu.
Because he's totally bitchin'
Ridin waves and blastin' pigeons.
And its a' neat shootin' skeet when youre ridin' on the heavies all day.
According to other reports, it is to be held on next May. So far 41 bands from 19 countries reportedly applied. ""
Amazing how many people will volunteer to be possible hostages???
Matt Damon!
ROR!
How do you say "There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen" in Korean?
doubting they will book Ted Nugent, LOL
Or breaking them on a prison gang.
Jet get in here you going laugh butt off LOLOL!
Very funny!!!
Maybe they could invitated Roger Clinton to perform
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