Command Performance

North Koreans look through the performance program before the start of a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. The Philharmonic is the first major American cultural group to perform in North Korea and the largest delegation from the United States to visit its longtime foe.

North Korean ushers peer into the concert hall before the start of a performance by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. The unprecedented concert represents a warming in relations between the nations that remain technically at war and locked in negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.

The audience stands for the National Anthems of North Korea and the United States at the start of a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. The orchestra performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" for North Korea's communist elite -- a feat of musical diplomacy aimed at improving ties with the isolated nuclear-armed country that considers the U.S. its mortal enemy.

Members of the New York Philharmonic perform next to a North Korean flag on stage in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

The New York Philharmonic performs at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

North Korean members of the audience applaud the New York Philharmonic during a concert performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

Music director Lorin Maazel, center, acknowledges applause from the audience during the New York Philharmonic's concert performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

The audience applauds the New York Philharmonic during a concert performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

The audience stands and applauds during a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

Music director Lorin Maazel accepts a bouquet of flowers from a North Korean woman after the New York Philharmonic's concert performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

North Korean men look down into the atrium of the East Pyongyang Grand Theater at the end of a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

North Korean men take photos of one another inside the main atrium of the East Pyongyang Grand Theater at the end of a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

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