On Thursday (4/26) David Beasley reports for Reuters, “A planned visit to the United States by North Korea’s National Symphony Orchestra next month has been postponed following Pyongyang’s launch of a long-range rocket, the head of an Atlanta-based humanitarian group said on Thursday. The nonprofit group, Global Resource Services… had been working to bring North Korea’s National Symphony Orchestra to at least three U.S. cities in May, the organization’s executive director, Robert Springs, told reporters. He postponed the trip following the missile launch. ‘I decided the timing was not right,’ said Springs, who would have been responsible for obtaining U.S. visas for the North Korean symphony members. After the rocket launch, which violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, the United States suspended a deal to provide significant food aid to North Korea. Springs said he is hopeful the symphony’s U.S. trip can be rescheduled for this summer.”
Posted April 27, 2012
