The Slovenian band Laibach will bring foreign contemporary pop to North Korea when it tours the secretive country next month, the band’s record label said on Wednesday. Laibach will play two concerts in Pyongyang in front of some 2,000 people in a tour organized by the Norwegian cultural activist Morten Traavik, who has been collaborating with North Korean artists for the past three years, London-based Mute said, “In August 2015, Laibach will become the first ever band of its kind to perform in the secretive country of North Korea, a reclusive garrison state as well-known for its military marches, mass gymnastics and hymns to the Great Leader, as for its defiant resistance to Western popular culture,”
