Your North Korean accordion quintet ’80s pop cover for the day

Here’s the description from YouTube: a-ha’s eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway February 8-12, 2012 (Juche 101).  Traavik is also ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

Here's the description from YouTube:

Here’s the description from YouTube:

a-ha’s eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway February 8-12, 2012 (Juche 101). 

Traavik is also the guy behind the "Miss Landmine" pageants held in Angola and Cambodia, which we wrote about back in 2008.   

Hat tip:  FP contributor Andrew MacGregor Marshall on Twitter

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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