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I think it is at some level an indication that North Korea is willing to engage peacefully with the world. We'll just have to see how it pans out - it's too early to know.

Hey John Schaefer, hope the trip is going well -- you have won a very special prize!

On the return trip from N. Korea to NYC you are booked on a seat between Phil Schaap and Jonathan Schwartz.

Congratulations and bon voyage!

I am very happy that the world's greatest orchestra made an effort to give a gleamer of hope and hapiness to one of the most repressed and brain-washed people in the world. I know it by experience. While growing up in the war-torn miserable South Korea, the visiting classical musicains from the USA gave us a gleamer of hope and hapiness. I belive that, given a chance, the Western classical music, which produced Beethoven's "Ode of Jo," wakes up out the best in human being. Further I truly believe that when, even in a distant future, some of the repressed Muslims wake up to the beauty of the classical music, the world will have hope and respite.

Sophie Donovan

It was a great trip & will be judged very favorably by history, just as other civilain cultural exchanges between the 2 countries will be as well. I was one of the 1st Americans to go there, back in 1989 & was very happy to host north Koreans in 2007, with the 1st time they have ever come to the USA, visiting 5 cities, for a cultural exchange with us.

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I hope more exchanges take place, as it will help open things up in a peaceful way, using a non-lethal method such as sports &/or music/art! JMHO