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“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s favorite guitar-slinging, miniskirt-sporting girl group, the Moranbong Band, is back. After a six-month hiatus, the queens of North Korea’s pop scene are once again playing to standing-room-only crowds and rave reviews in the state media. They are the darlings of prime-time TV, such as it is. Even athletes at this month’s Pyongyang marathon were treated to one of the band’s livelier tunes – blared at them from a sound truck.

More than merely a pop sensation, the Moranbong Band, said to have been hand-picked by Kim himself, has since its stage debut in 2012 come to be the softer, more hummable face of the new Kim regime, despite speculation that at least one of its members had fallen out of favor in connection with the purge of Kim’s once-powerful uncle earlier this year. The last big concert by the band, made up of more than a dozen members who play everything from electric violins and cellos to keyboards and drums, was in October”. – Eric Talmadge via Associated Press


In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band, Jong Su Hyang, foreground, and  Pak Mi Kyong, left perform on their stage in Pyongyang, North Korea. Step aside, Sea of Blood Opera. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favorite guitar-slinging, miniskirt-sporting girl group, the Moranbong Band, is back. And these ladies know how to shimmy. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)

In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band, Jong Su Hyang, foreground, and Pak Mi Kyong, left perform on their stage in Pyongyang, North Korea. Step aside, Sea of Blood Opera. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favorite guitar-slinging, miniskirt-sporting girl group, the Moranbong Band, is back. And these ladies know how to shimmy. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)




In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band perform on their stage in Pyongyang, North Korea. Step aside, Sea of Blood Opera. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favorite guitar-slinging, miniskirt-sporting girl group, the Moranbong Band, is back. And these ladies know how to shimmy. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)

In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band perform on their stage in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)




In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band hold bouquets of flowers during their performance in Pyongyang, North Korea. Step aside, Sea of Blood Opera. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favorite guitar-slinging, miniskirt-sporting girl group, the Moranbong Band, is back. And these ladies know how to shimmy. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)

In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band hold bouquets of flowers during their performance in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)




In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band perform on their stage in Pyongyang, North Korea. Step aside, Sea of Blood Opera. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favorite guitar-slinging, miniskirt-sporting girl group, the Moranbong Band, is back. And these ladies know how to shimmy. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)

In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo, singers of the Moranbong Band perform on their stage in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)






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