A picture to gladden the heart. I assume, based on the swords being carried (presumably not standard contemporary battlefield issue) that this is a photo of a rehearsal for a public performance. Thanks as ever to Tom Coyner for this treasure.
And another, unrelated, bizarre item from the North, from Der Spiegel: this coming weekend will see the opening of Pyongyang’s new Russian Orthodox church, whose priests are all ex-DPRK intelligence agents.