6/28/2006 - Oregon Considered
Posted by Michael Clapp at June 28, 2006 03:56 PM
Oregon's Trail Band Is A Global Hit
Visas to North Korea are hard to come by. The communist government of Kim Jong-Il severely restricts tourism. All foreign visitors must get official approval.
But Mercy Corps has a long track record of sending delegations and shipments of food and medicine to Pyongyang. It's an Oregon based non-profit that's been providing food assistance (ever since the 1995 famine that killed more than 2 million North Koreans).
Food assistance and now country music. Last year North Korean officials invited Mercy Corps to bring along some genuine American folk musicians for a festival in Pyongyang.
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