https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CFBjAyPWE When it comes to inter-Korean relations, pop music — and politics — work in concert. North Korea sent a musical delegation to South Korea for the Winter Olympics last month. Now it's the other side's turn. South Korean solo singers and group acts will head north this weekend for the first time in more than a decade. "It is important in that [cultural exchange] is an achievement that is moving forward when everything else is stuck, when other exchanges need to get moving forward," says Adam Cathcart, an East Asia researcher at the University of Leeds. In this case, other exchanges are set to happen: The leaders of the rival Koreas have scheduled their first face-to-face summit for April 27. But before that, there will be music. "Music is particularly useful because it doesn't require a lot of talking," Cathcart says. "And the performance looks great, but it doesn't require a long discussion about the ideas behind it or anything else." Singer
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