BEIJING (Reuters) - The New York Philharmonic arrives in Pyongyang on Monday to play the symphony "From the New World" in an overture to thaw still frozen ties from the Cold War era between the United States and North Korea.
The unprecedented visit comes as international pressure mounts on the communist state to stop dragging its heels and stick to its side of a deal to eventually discard its nuclear weapons programme.
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