WikiLeaks: Want to bring North Korea Eric Clapton

WikiLeaks: Want to bring North Korea Eric Clapton. For North Korea (North Korea), United States (U.S.) have been considered as an imperialist enemy. However, for cultural affairs, the communist state would never ask for U.S. aid to bring in famous musician Eric Clapton, as an effort to build "good intentions."


That is one of the U.S. diplomatic memo, which leaked WikiLeaks. As monitored CNN, Sunday, December 12, 2010, memo was filed by the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea (ROK), in 2007. Communication between the North with the U.S. Embassy through an intermediary, whose name was censored from the document.

"Setting the Eric Clapton concert in Pyongyang [North Korea's capital] can bring benefits, he said [the intermediary], considering the second son Kim Jong-il is a fan of the legend of the skirt," according to excerpts of the memo.

"Given the second son Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Chol, reportedly is a big fan of [Clapton], the concert could be a chance to build goodwill," the memo continued.

Since the 1950-1953 Korean War, North Korea and the U.S. mutually hostile since Washington became an ally South Korea. News Online.

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