Pianist plays at Korea border

Seoul - A Czech pianist, Hana Dvorakova, held a landmark recital yesterday at the world's most tense border dividing South and…

Seoul - A Czech pianist, Hana Dvorakova, held a landmark recital yesterday at the world's most tense border dividing South and North Korea since the end of the three-year 1950 Korean War.

Witnesses said North Korean soldiers watched from the other side of the buffer zone separating the two Koreas, looking very curious as about 200 foreign diplomats and military officials gathered.

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