All market data delayed 20 minutes. The Wangjaesan Dance Troupe is part of the group. U.S., EU resume negotiations on free trade agreement, U.S., Iran trade accusations over hitch in nuclear talks, With nuclear plants idled, Japan launches pioneering wind project. Mexican lawmakers have until Dec. 15 to update federal law to regulate recreational pot under orders from the Supreme Court — which two years ago struck down a marijuana ban as unconstitutional. A native of Rhode Island and irrepressible Red Sox fan, Williams speaks Russian, German, French and Spanish, and has reported from more than 80 countries. Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin, head of the Unhasu Orchestra, were arrested on Aug. 17 for violating North Korean laws against pornography and were executed in public three days later. Scores detained during protests in Belarus, rights group says. Chosun Ilbo, another leading South Korean daily, said the troupe members reportedly filmed themselves having sex and sold the videos on the black market to earn money. [2], On 29 August 2013, The Chosun Ilbo reported that key members of the Wangjaesan Light Music Band were made to watch the execution by firing squad of other musicians and dancers from their band, as well as members of the Unhasu Orchestra and the singer Hyon Song-wol, on the orders of Kim Jong-un. “They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band, and Moranbong Band as well as the families of … This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The paper reported that the condemned, all members of the performing groups Unhasu Orchestra and Wangjaesan Light Music Band, were accused of making videos of themselves having sex and selling the videos, which the paper reported were available in China. The source suggested that the entertainers were executed to prevent disparaging accounts from circulating about the first lady’s behavior. The band was established by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on 22 July 198 Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Its music was often broadcast over Korean Central Broadcasting Station channels such as Radio Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly ordered the public executions of 80 people this month to send a message of intolerance of what the communist regime considers corruptive foreign influence. ‘Asteroid’ nearing Earth may be old NASA rocket. Rumored executions and alleged disbandment. Monday’s report said a South Korean official with business in the North had been told by North Korean authorities that an investigation into the Unhasu affair suggested Kim’s wife had been involved in similar prohibited activities. Hospitalizations from the coronavirus have hit their highest points recently throughout the Midwest. The surviving members of the Wangjaesan Light Music Band quit after their fellow performers were executed. The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports that singer Hyon Song-wol and 11 others had been arrested on August 17 for violating North Korea's laws against pornography and was executed three days later. A foreign correspondent for 25 years, she has won five Overseas Press Club awards, two Sigma Delta Chi citations and was a 1993 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. "They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," the source said. Trump’s doctor says he can resume campaign rallies, but not that he’s free of coronavirus. A study of 660,000 Indians finds that a few individuals spread most new infections and that children transmit the coronavirus just as well as adults.