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Any year brings its share of joy, sadness, triumphs, tragedies and just plain weirdnesses. We journalists are there to document them all. And yet we enjoy a good story, or feel emotion at a heart-wrenching one, as much as anyone, so in looking back at 2013 these are what -
North Korea Executes 12 Prominent Musicians, Including Kim Jong-Un's Ex-Girlfriend Hyon Wong-sol
North Korea has reportedly executed twelve individuals, all musicians and performers labelled as "dissidents," on August 20. The musicians involved members of Chinese performance group the Unhasu Orchestra, the Moranbong Band and the Wanjaesan Light Music Band. The most prominent of those killed was Hyon Song-wol, a Chinese singer who became popular in North Korea, and recorded the nation's 2005 hit "Excellent Horse-Like Lady," and other patriotically-themed music.
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