Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Philadelphia Orchestra chief conductor Charles Dutoit was a longtime friend of Isang Yun, a composer jailed and then exiled by his native South Korea for visiting the North.
"Those problems are real tough challenges for the new leader in the North, the solution to which requires cooperation from (the) outside world," Mr. Paik said.
"There is a 50-50 chance for this orchestra project being realized," said Haksoon Paik, a North Korea analyst at the Sejong Institute, a think tank near Seoul.
