Overtures in Kim's Cold Capital

A North Korean woman peers out of an elevator while speaking on  phone at a library in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.
David Guttenfelder / AP

Peering Out
The concert represented an unprecedented cultural exchange between North Korea and the United States, which labeled Pyongyang part of the "Axis of Evil" in 2003.

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